Trying to get my RLV11 working

[Ben Sinclair]

I'm trying to get my RLV11 working to eventually run my RL02, and am
having some trouble.

I have a PDP-11/23 in an H9273 backplane. I just got it working
reliably without the RLV11 boards installed, so now I'm giving them a
try again.

Here's my configuration:

Down the left side: M8186, M8044, M8044, M8043, M8013, M8014, and
M8012 (the BDV11) on the bottom.

I don't have the drive connected and am just trying to run the VRLAC0
controller test, which I believe should work without any drives
connected.

The switches on M8014 are configured to the defaults, according to:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/qbus/EK-RLV11-TD-001_RLV11_Controller_Technical_Description_Manual_Mar78.pdf

That would be a vector address of 330 and a base address of 174400.

Unfortunately, VRLAC0 doesn't look like it can see anything, but I'm
not sure I'm reading its output correctly.

What follows is the VRLAC0 output. I also looked at 17440 myself and
get 005737, though I'm not sure what it should be.

This is new territory for me, so any help would be welcome. Thanks!

.R VRLAC0
VRLAC0.BIN

DRSSM-G2
CVRLA-C-0
CVRLAC RLV11 RL01 DSKLESS DIAGNOSTIC
UNIT IS RLV11
RSTRT ADR 145702
DR>START

CHANGE HW (L)  ? Y

# UNITS (D)  ? 1

UNIT 0
11/23 PROCESSOR (L) Y ?
BUS ADDRESS (O)  174400 ?
VECTOR (O)  160 ? 330
DRIVE (O)  0 ?
BR LEVEL (O)  5 ?

CHANGE SW (L)  ? Y

DROP ON ERROR LIMIT (L) N ?
AUTOSIZE (L) N ?

CVRLA SYS FTL ERR  00000 ON UNIT 00 TST 001 SUB 000 PC: 017066
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLCS
CONTROLLER: 174400  DRIVE: 0
CVRLA SYS FTL ERR  00001 ON UNIT 00 TST 002 SUB 000 PC: 017164
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLBA
CONTROLLER: 174400  DRIVE: 0
CVRLA SYS FTL ERR  00002 ON UNIT 00 TST 003 SUB 000 PC: 017262
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLDA
CONTROLLER: 174400  DRIVE: 0
CVRLA SYS FTL ERR  00003 ON UNIT 00 TST 004 SUB 000 PC: 017360
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLMP
CONTROLLER: 174400  DRIVE: 0
CVRLA SYS FTL ERR  00100 ON UNIT 00 TST 005 SUB 000 PC: 017454
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLCS
CONTROLLER: 174400  DRIVE: 0
CVRLA SYS FTL ERR  00101 ON UNIT 00 TST 006 SUB 000 PC: 017550
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLBA
CONTROLLER: 174400  DRIVE: 0
CVRLA SYS FTL ERR  00102 ON UNIT 00 TST 007 SUB 000 PC: 017644
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLDA
CONTROLLER: 174400  DRIVE: 0
CVRLA SYS FTL ERR  00103 ON UNIT 00 TST 008 SUB 000 PC: 017740
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLMP
CONTROLLER: 174400  DRIVE: 0

 ILL INTER 004
 PC 017770 PS 000341

 ILL INTER 004
 PC 014460 PS 000005
DR>



-- 
Ben Sinclair
ben at bensinclair.com