DEC KA650 VAX memory troubleshooting

[W2HX]

Wow. Very nicely done! Which logic analyzer did you use to capture those displays?

73 Eugene W2HX
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Subject: Re: DEC KA650 VAX memory troubleshooting

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