On 11-09-05 05:28 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Oh the complexities of the world we live in:
Nah, there's nothing to it. There's just a lot of nothing. :)
Phil
So I'm willing to live with the single storage array I have for now, and am thinking of acquiring say off ebay, a second controller.
Which model should I go for? I only need one port but would like it to support as large a logical drive as possible (well, I've got 7x18 GB drives in a stack to use)..
Suggestions?
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
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.
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
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
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
Ah Sampsa, that's not a filter but rather faint memory...
It's been sent now.
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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
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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.
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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?
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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
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