I wrote:
Well, you've explained one problem already.
You're not supposed to put
disk drives and tape drives on the same Massbus.
Bill Pechter <pechter(a)pechter.dyndns.org> wrote:
It's because of software limitations and (If I
remember correctly)
disk and tape drives used different numbers of massbus registers
so you have to jumper (in the PDP11 case) the RH differently.
And since the KS10 uses a variant of the RH11, it has the same limitation.
That's why there are two RH11s in a KS10. In theory it apparently can
handle three, but I've not heard of anyone installing a third, and I
don't know whether the software supports it.
Don't know about the 10's though. Vax
RH780's could do both disks and
tapes on the same massbus.
Might be possible on the RH10 or RH20, but I don't think software
supports it.