Good grief what a week this has been, but I finally got the PDP-11 I'm trying to put together to boot off of a ESDI harddrive. Not the processor or disk controller I was expecting, for all that goes not the version of RSX-11M I was expecting, but it's up and running. At the moment it is running a PDP-11/23+ instead of the /73, has a RLV12 in it, and is missing basically all the boards. However, tomorrow I'm hoping to basically get the hardware back into the configuration that I want. I had two problems. First, for some reason I couldn't get RSX11M to like the Webster WQESD controller I was trying to use, so I switched to a Emulex QD21, and was able to load the TK50 onto the Harddrive. But it wouldn't boot once I got that done last night. Foolish me thinking it wasn't bootable drug a RL02 drive and controller into the house tonite :^( Turns out that I'd gotten the DIP switches mixed up <ARGHHH> Once I had them right (and the system totally rearranged) it booted off DU0: despite my wanting to go from DL0: :^) If work doesn't interfere tomorrow night, I'm going to be having some fun with this system :^) Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ |