28 Nov
2014
28 Nov
'14
7:24 p.m.
I went looking for MSCP docs and found a PDF holding scans
of a copy of version 1.2 (April, 1982) of DEC document AA-L619A-TK
("MSCP Basic Disk Functions Manual"). It had some of what I wanted.
I've now done a conversion to text and manually checked and cleaned up
the result. But I'm not sure whom to offer the resulting text file to.
I don't know where I got the PDF; my notes give
http://vt100.net/tmp/l619atk.pdf and
http://www.microvax.org/awx/computers/VAXen/l619atk.pdf as places, but
neither of those is accessible now - vt100.net returns an "I'm moving,
stuff may be offline" page, and www.microvax.org gives ETIMEDOUT. And
my wetware memory doesn't help me any.
Anyone want a copy, or care to suggest where I should mail it?
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28 Nov
28 Nov
11:21 p.m.
Il giorno ven, 28/11/2014 alle 22.24 -0500, Mouse ha scritto:
I went looking for MSCP docs and found a PDF holding
scans
of a copy of version 1.2 (April, 1982) of DEC document AA-L619A-TK
("MSCP Basic Disk Functions Manual"). It had some of what I wanted.
I've now done a conversion to text and manually checked and cleaned up
the result. But I'm not sure whom to offer the resulting text file to.
I don't know where I got the PDF; my notes give
http://vt100.net/tmp/l619atk.pdf and
http://www.microvax.org/awx/computers/VAXen/l619atk.pdf as places, but
neither of those is accessible now - vt100.net returns an "I'm moving,
stuff may be offline" page, and www.microvax.org gives ETIMEDOUT. And
my wetware memory doesn't help me any.
Anyone want a copy, or care to suggest where I should mail it?
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The original can
be found here...
http://decdoc.itsx.net/pdp11nl/
29 Nov
29 Nov
5:56 a.m.
> I went looking for MSCP docs and found a PDF
holding scans of a copy
> of version 1.2 (April, 1982) of DEC document AA-L619A-TK [...]
> I don't know where I got the PDF; [...]
The original can be found here...
http://decdoc.itsx.net/pdp11nl/
Ah! Thank you. Yes, the l619atk.pdf there is bit-identical to the PDF
I started with.
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6:20 a.m.
On 29/11/2014 13:56, Mouse wrote:
I'm not sure what you're looking for but I know of three MSCP documents
which were at one time hard to find. However I acquired copies several
years ago, scanned them, and made them available. They are:
MSCP Basic Disk Functions Manual AA-L619A-TK, Version 1.2, First
Edition April 1982
Storage Systems Diagnostics and Utility Protocol AA-L620A-TK April 1982
Storage System Unibus Port Description AA-L621A-TK April 1982
Collectively they make up the UDA50 Programmer's Documentation Kit,
published by Digital Equipment Corporation, Part No. QP-905-GZ. There
are three documents in the set, which are useful (if not essential) to
anyone programming for DEC's RQDX controllers and other MSCP or TMSCP
controllers, as well as the UDA50. Don't be put off by the "Unibus" in
the title of the third; it's applicable to QBus systems as well.
If you can't find them all, they are (temporarily) back at
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/MSCP/
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Pete
Pete Turnbull
> I went
looking for MSCP docs and found a PDF holding scans of a copy
> of version 1.2 (April, 1982) of DEC document AA-L619A-TK [...]
> I don't know where I got the PDF; [...]
The original can be found here...
http://decdoc.itsx.net/pdp11nl/
Ah! Thank you. Yes, the l619atk.pdf there is bit-identical to the PDF
I started with.
6:46 a.m.
I went looking
for MSCP docs [...]
[...] MSCP Basic Disk Functions Manual AA-L619A-TK,
Version 1.2, First
Edition April 1982
That's the document I was talking about (though, as you presumably
know, it's a different scan of it).
Storage Systems Diagnostics and Utility Protocol
AA-L620A-TK April 1982
Storage System Unibus Port Description AA-L621A-TK
April 1982
Collectively they make up the UDA50 Programmer's
Documentation Kit
[...]
That is very much of interest to me.
What motivated this is that my MicroVAX-II emulator is getting to the
point where I think it may complete a build of the NetBSD world running
diskless, and I'd like to give it local disk.
But that requires knowing enough MSCP to build an MSCP disk emulator.
AA-L619A-TK has almost enough; combined with the NetBSD driver code it
may be enough. But AA-L620A-TK and AA-L621A-TK will definitely be good
to have.
If you can't find them all, they are (temporarily)
back at
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/MSCP/
I've snagged copies of all three. Thank you very much.
Mouse
7:13 a.m.
On 29/11/2014 14:46, Mouse wrote:
You're welcome. I thought I'd given them to Al at bitsavers but I
didn't see them there until I looked under pdf/dec/disc/uda50/ - and
there's more stuff there that might be useful.
I only uploaded the PDFs to my own website but I do have the TIFFs that
are mentioned in its index. If anyone needs the TIFFs, please let me know.
--
Pete
Collectively
they make up the UDA50 Programmer's Documentation Kit
[...]
That is very much of interest to me. If you
can't find them all, they are (temporarily) back at
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/MSCP/
I've snagged copies of all three. Thank you very much.
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