HECnet September 2011

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by ian＠platinum.net

Hello All, I'm trying to compile and run SIMH on CentOS 5.6. I've followed the instructions at http://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html but when I try to boot from the CD image, I get: [root at zork data]# /usr/local/vax/bin/vax VAX simulator V3.8-1 NVR: buffering file in memory RQ: unit is read only Eth: opened eth0 KA655-B V5.3, VMB 2.7 Performing normal system tests. 40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..31..30..29..28..27..26..25.. 24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..14..13..12..11..10..09.. 08..07..06..05..04..03.. Tests completed. >>>boot dua3 (BOOT/R5:0 DUA3 2.. -DUA3 ?42 NOSUCHFILE, DUA HALT instruction, PC: 00000C1A (MOVL (R11),SP) sim> Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong? The CD image file I made directly from the Montagar 7.3 CD. The vax.ini file is exactly as shown on the instructions page. Thanks in advance for any suggestions! Ian

13 years, 12 months

And yet more begging: KZPAC style controller?

by HECNET＠beyondthepale.ie

Here's a photo of mine, can you draw the bit I need to change onto it, or the general area: http://sampsa.com/wp-content/kzstyleboard.jpg That picture reminded me of something. I have what I thought was an extra long and overly complex PCI SCSI card in my stash. It has the same Intel i960 as the card in the picture but doesn't have the extra daughter board. It is marked KZPSAPS and has a single 68 pin external SCSI connector and five resistor packs commonly found as terminators on old-style (ie non-low-voltage) differential SCSI cards. I tried firing it up in my AS1000A and found that SRM sees it as follows: SHOW CONF 12 DEC KZPSA pke0.7.0.12.0 SCSI Bus ID 7 SHOW DEV pke0.7.0.12.0 PKE0 SCSI Bus ID 7 R01 A11 VMS (7.1-2) sees it as: Device PKA0:, device type KZTSA/SCSI (SIMport), is online, error logging is enabled. Error count 0 Operations completed 24 Owner process "" Owner UIC [SYSTEM] Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G,W Reference count 0 Default buffer size 0 Anyone know what (if anything) is special about this card? Regards, Peter Coghlan.

13 years, 12 months

Anyone with a spare MMJ cable + RS232 adapter?

by schwa.phil＠gmail.com

On 11-09-05 04:24 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote: 4-7 sounds good. Done. I will post them as soon as you give me a mailing address. Anytime now... :) Phil

13 years, 12 months

Init'ing Mylex DAC stuff from within VMS?

by sampsa＠mac.com

Well, it all went tits up - upgraded the Firmware on the 800 and it doesn't even see the controller anymore. So if anyone comes across a spare KZPAC-type device, I'd be very interested. Sampsa On 5 Sep 2011, at 21:17, Marc Chametzky wrote: I understand there's a SWXCR utility or something for this? I did some digging and found that I still had the install kits that I used to use on my Alpha system way back when. I put it into DUSTY::, but it seems that I'm offline at the moment. Oh, and I don't think that you can use this to initialize the arrays while VMS is running, but it's been so long that I cannot recall. --Marc

13 years, 12 months

Init'ing Mylex DAC stuff from within VMS?

by marc＠bluevine.net

I understand there's a SWXCR utility or something for this? I did some digging and found that I still had the install kits that I used to use on my Alpha system way back when. I put it into DUSTY::, but it seems that I'm offline at the moment. Oh, and I don't think that you can use this to initialize the arrays while VMS is running, but it's been so long that I cannot recall. --Marc

13 years, 12 months

Init'ing Mylex DAC stuff from within VMS?

by marc＠bluevine.net

I understand there's a SWXCR utility or something for this? I did some digging and found that I still had the install kits that I used to use on my Alpha system way back when. I put it into DUSTY::, but it seems that I'm offline at the moment. You can find the files at: http://www.bluevine.net/~marc/DEC-AXPVMS-SWXCR-V0300--1.PCSI http://www.bluevine.net/~marc/DEC-AXPVMS-SWXCR_E-V0102--3.PCSI http://www.bluevine.net/~marc/INVOKE_PCSI.COM Hopefully they'll download okay. --Marc

13 years, 12 months

Anyone with a spare MMJ cable + RS232 adapter?

by schwa.phil＠gmail.com

On 11-09-05 02:32 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote: Yeah, MMJ to MMJ is what I wanted Good. - you were asking about delivery options and I would suggest just picking the standard one (you're in the UK, i hope), which is is signed for delivery? Guess you didn't get that e-mail. Short answer: I'm in Canada. About $4-7 if you want it in somewhere around a week. Much more for anything faster, like $50 - $100 or airfare + expenses for hand delivery. ;) They can go in the post tomorrow if you tell me where to send them. Phil

13 years, 12 months

And yet more begging: KZPAC style controller?

by hvlems＠zonnet.nl

Ah Sampsa, that's not a filter but rather faint memory... It's been sent now. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] Namens Sampsa Laine Verzonden: maandag, september 2011 21:38 Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] And yet more begging: KZPAC style controller? Still didn't get it, prob some stupid mail filter somewhere - got a website to upload it to? On 5 Sep 2011, at 19:40, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote: Ok, I'll resend it Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerryR-toestel -----Original Message----- From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> Sender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:26:10 To: <hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Reply-To: hecnet at Update.UU.SESubject: Re: [HECnet] And yet more begging: KZPAC style controller? By the way, the majordomo does not seem to like large attachments so if you want to send back a picture file send in directly to sampsa at mac.com. Sampsa On 5 Sep 2011, at 17:47, Sampsa Laine wrote: Here's a photo of mine, can you draw the bit I need to change onto it, or the general area: http://sampsa.com/wp-content/kzstyleboard.jpg On 5 Sep 2011, at 17:28, Sampsa Laine wrote: Any photos? I'm confused by the instructions. On 5 Sep 2011, at 17:16, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote: Sampsa, study the small PCB that sits on top of double plastic connector. It's a kind of dipswitch: there's a connection to be made. Put the pcb of the working one iin the other. Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerryR-toestel -----Original Message----- From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> Sender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:42:39 To: <hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Reply-To: hecnet at Update.UU.SESubject: Re: [HECnet] And yet more begging: KZPAC style controller? Yup, bought a 3 channel Mylex card, even showed up in SRM as drb, happily ran the RCU to build the drives. Then VMS doesn't see it. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH. I think they did more than rebrand it. Sampsa On 5 Sep 2011, at 14:45, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote: The KZPAC is DEC's codename for the Mylex 960 RAID controller, right? ------Origineel bericht------ Van: Sampsa Laine Afzender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Onderwerp: [HECnet] And yet more begging: KZPAC style controller? Verzonden: 5 september 2011 10:33 I've finally brought CHIMPY up from the dead, and are using its internal KZPAC to drive a BA365. I've LOVE another kzpac controlller. and if you have a spare, any chance you can consider a donation... Sampsa Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerryR-toestel

13 years, 12 months

Init'ing Mylex DAC stuff from within VMS?

by hvlems＠zonnet.nl

Yes, the utility exists but I've never installed it. You can initialize the controller and the arrays on a pc though. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] Namens Sampsa Laine Verzonden: maandag, september 2011 21:46 Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Onderwerp: [HECnet] Init'ing Mylex DAC stuff from within VMS? So let's say I manage to get this second controller going, is there something like RCU to initialise the arrays from inside VMS whilst keeping the box running? I understand there's a SWXCR utility or something for this? Sampsa

13 years, 12 months

FW: [HECnet] And yet more begging: KZPAC style controller?

by hvlems＠zonnet.nl

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: H Vlems [mailto:hvlems at zonnet.nl] Verzonden: maandag, september 2011 19:14 Aan: 'hecnet at Update.UU.SE' Onderwerp: RE: [HECnet] And yet more begging: KZPAC style controller? I get it, you show me yours and I show your mine, right ;-) Your photo shows a large pcb on top of the connector I referred to. See picture *92 for an overall view of the controller. Photo *91 shows the PCB in some more detail while photo *90 shows the socket itself. I hope this helps, but if the big PCB on your controller uses the same socket (or so it seems) then please ignore my previous post on this subject. Hans -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] Namens Sampsa Laine Verzonden: maandag, september 2011 18:47 Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] And yet more begging: KZPAC style controller? Here's a photo of mine, can you draw the bit I need to change onto it, or the general area: http://sampsa.com/wp-content/kzstyleboard.jpg On 5 Sep 2011, at 17:28, Sampsa Laine wrote: Any photos? I'm confused by the instructions. On 5 Sep 2011, at 17:16, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote: Sampsa, study the small PCB that sits on top of double plastic connector. It's a kind of dipswitch: there's a connection to be made. Put the pcb of the working one iin the other. Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerryR-toestel -----Original Message----- From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> Sender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:42:39 To: <hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Reply-To: hecnet at Update.UU.SESubject: Re: [HECnet] And yet more begging: KZPAC style controller? Yup, bought a 3 channel Mylex card, even showed up in SRM as drb, happily ran the RCU to build the drives. Then VMS doesn't see it. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH. I think they did more than rebrand it. Sampsa On 5 Sep 2011, at 14:45, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote: The KZPAC is DEC's codename for the Mylex 960 RAID controller, right? ------Origineel bericht------ Van: Sampsa Laine Afzender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Onderwerp: [HECnet] And yet more begging: KZPAC style controller? Verzonden: 5 september 2011 10:33 I've finally brought CHIMPY up from the dead, and are using its internal KZPAC to drive a BA365. I've LOVE another kzpac controlller. and if you have a spare, any chance you can consider a donation... Sampsa Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerryR-toestel

13 years, 12 months

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