DEC KA650 VAX memory troubleshooting

[Joseph Zatarski]

Well, I finally got around to posting this on the CHWiki, in case 
anybody was curious about this.

https://gunkies.org/wiki/DEC_KA650_Memory_Subsystem

On 6/17/19 7:56 PM, Joe Zatarski wrote:
> OK, so where should a thing like this go: https://pastebin.com/taQwaTV6
> 
> Anybody got a decent place to upload that? it's my notes on the 
> MS650-AA, and more generally the KA650 CMCTL memory subsystem.
> 
> Includes my theory of operation of the CMCTL, the organization of 
> memory, the ECC equations (kinda, the info is there to derive them), 
> explanations of the signals on the memory bus, and most importantly, a 
> list of which bits and RAM regions correspond to the 312 DRAMs on the board.
> 
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 8:33 PM Joe Zatarski <joezatarski at gmail.com 
> <mailto:joezatarski at gmail.com>> wrote:
>  >
>  > Hey Everyone,
>  >
>  > I just thought I'd share a video of how I'm going about 
> troubleshooting the bad DRAMs on my MS650 memory board.
>  >
>  > https://youtu.be/eDMhdAEFEgc
>  >
>  > I apologize for the shaky-cam, I don't have a tripod, and I needed to 
> do a lot of panning anyway.
>  >
>  > I will be sharing my notes on the MS650 once I have a chance to write 
> them up properly as well. I wasn't able to find a printset for the RAM 
> card itself, so I assume one doesn't exist in digital form yet. I have 
> documented what bit and memory range each DRAM on the card corresponds 
> to, which may help someone troubleshooting in the future
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  > Joe Zatarski