On Thu, 22 May 2014, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2014-05-22 14:57, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2014-05-22 14:52, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Thu, 22 May 2014, Cory Smelosky wrote:
With the board in I can get to ODT...but:
QBUS BUS CONTROLLER TEST#1.......................... FAILED
*** FAILED DUE TO UNINITIALIZED Q-BUS MAP, DMA FAILURE OR NON-EXIST
MEMORY.
QBUS BUS CONTROLLER TEST#2.......................... PASSED
QBUS BUS CONTROLLER TEST#3.......................... PASSED
QBUS SINGLE WORD DMA TEST........................... PASSED
QBUS TO FIFO DMA TEST............................... FAILED
*** FAILED DUE TO UNINITIALIZED Q-BUS MAP, DMA FAILURE OR NON-EXIST
MEMORY.
I think the red ECC error light is on, too but the system IS halted.
That sounds bad. What backplane is this sitting in now? And I think the
PMI memory board actually do some internal diagnostics already at power
on, so an error light on is probably not a good sign...
By the way, I hope/assume that you also configured it to start at address 0...
I have. Took me a bit to figure out which DIP switch position meant "on" and which meant "off".
Johnny
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In any cluster all nodes minus one must be routers, L1 or L2. The Nth node may be an end node. That's what I remember....
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Van: Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Verzonden: donderdag 22 mei 2014 11:10
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Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] DECNET Cluster alias and simh
El 22/05/2014, a les 9.27, Kari Uusim ki <uusimaki at exdecfinland.org> va escriure:
For the DECnet cluster alias you need (at least) one routing node (L1) or a router.
Does any of the cluster nodes have routing enabled?
I hqve a L1 router and an area router in the same LAN. Is that enough, or should I enable routing in one of the cluster members?
Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
jg at jordi.guillaumes.name
HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES
On 2014-05-22 14:57, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2014-05-22 14:52, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Thu, 22 May 2014, Cory Smelosky wrote:
With the board in I can get to ODT...but:
QBUS BUS CONTROLLER TEST#1.......................... FAILED
*** FAILED DUE TO UNINITIALIZED Q-BUS MAP, DMA FAILURE OR NON-EXIST
MEMORY.
QBUS BUS CONTROLLER TEST#2.......................... PASSED
QBUS BUS CONTROLLER TEST#3.......................... PASSED
QBUS SINGLE WORD DMA TEST........................... PASSED
QBUS TO FIFO DMA TEST............................... FAILED
*** FAILED DUE TO UNINITIALIZED Q-BUS MAP, DMA FAILURE OR NON-EXIST
MEMORY.
I think the red ECC error light is on, too but the system IS halted.
That sounds bad. What backplane is this sitting in now? And I think the
PMI memory board actually do some internal diagnostics already at power
on, so an error light on is probably not a good sign...
By the way, I hope/assume that you also configured it to start at address 0...
Johnny
On Thu, 22 May 2014, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2014-05-22 14:52, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Thu, 22 May 2014, Cory Smelosky wrote:
With the board in I can get to ODT...but:
QBUS BUS CONTROLLER TEST#1.......................... FAILED
*** FAILED DUE TO UNINITIALIZED Q-BUS MAP, DMA FAILURE OR NON-EXIST
MEMORY.
QBUS BUS CONTROLLER TEST#2.......................... PASSED
QBUS BUS CONTROLLER TEST#3.......................... PASSED
QBUS SINGLE WORD DMA TEST........................... PASSED
QBUS TO FIFO DMA TEST............................... FAILED
*** FAILED DUE TO UNINITIALIZED Q-BUS MAP, DMA FAILURE OR NON-EXIST
MEMORY.
I think the red ECC error light is on, too but the system IS halted.
That sounds bad. What backplane is this sitting in now? And I think the PMI memory board actually do some internal diagnostics already at power on, so an error light on is probably not a good sign...
Still the BA123.
Turns out the light came on when I tried to read invalid memory. ;)
Johnny
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Cory Smelosky
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On 2014-05-22 14:52, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Thu, 22 May 2014, Cory Smelosky wrote:
With the board in I can get to ODT...but:
QBUS BUS CONTROLLER TEST#1.......................... FAILED
*** FAILED DUE TO UNINITIALIZED Q-BUS MAP, DMA FAILURE OR NON-EXIST
MEMORY.
QBUS BUS CONTROLLER TEST#2.......................... PASSED
QBUS BUS CONTROLLER TEST#3.......................... PASSED
QBUS SINGLE WORD DMA TEST........................... PASSED
QBUS TO FIFO DMA TEST............................... FAILED
*** FAILED DUE TO UNINITIALIZED Q-BUS MAP, DMA FAILURE OR NON-EXIST
MEMORY.
I think the red ECC error light is on, too but the system IS halted.
That sounds bad. What backplane is this sitting in now? And I think the PMI memory board actually do some internal diagnostics already at power on, so an error light on is probably not a good sign...
Johnny
On Thu, 22 May 2014, Cory Smelosky wrote:
With the board in I can get to ODT...but:
QBUS BUS CONTROLLER TEST#1.......................... FAILED
*** FAILED DUE TO UNINITIALIZED Q-BUS MAP, DMA FAILURE OR NON-EXIST MEMORY.
QBUS BUS CONTROLLER TEST#2.......................... PASSED
QBUS BUS CONTROLLER TEST#3.......................... PASSED
QBUS SINGLE WORD DMA TEST........................... PASSED
QBUS TO FIFO DMA TEST............................... FAILED
*** FAILED DUE TO UNINITIALIZED Q-BUS MAP, DMA FAILURE OR NON-EXIST MEMORY.
I think the red ECC error light is on, too but the system IS halted.
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On Thu, 22 May 2014, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Yup!
Nice.
Yeah.
Did you know that those memory boards work just fine as normal Qbus
memory boards? :-)
THAT I did not know! Looks like I have a spare.
Indeed. Those memories are funny. If you put them in an 11/83, they either act as Qbus memory or PMI memory, depending on if you place them before or after the CPU. And that makes a speed difference...
Cool.
Of course, for all other type of systems, you'll have to place them after the CPU.
Yeah. ;)
There's that 16K board...I could adjust the memory offsets.
Ugh! 16K is not much...
Nope...but MAYBE just enough to fit the lower bits of the executive?
Maybe. But I think that PMI memory is a better option. :-)
Yup. ;)
M8637.
Johnny
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On 2014-05-22 14:27, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Thu, 22 May 2014, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2014-05-22 14:20, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Thu, 22 May 2014, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I've never seen a board with the ability to disable parity...
It's a clearpoint board. Technically it's just disabling the parity
circuitry CSR.
The "***EXEC PARITY ERROR STOP***" message is when you get a parity
error in the memory where the kernel resides.
RSX can deal with memory errors in other parts of the memory, by just
making that memory unavailable for programs to use. But it cannot do
this with the parts that the kernel use, so then it panics instead.
Ahh. Damn. I'd be okay if the only other memory board I had spare
wasn't PMI.
PMI? As the the PMI memory boards for the 11/83?
Yup!
Nice.
Did you know that those memory boards work just fine as normal Qbus
memory boards? :-)
THAT I did not know! Looks like I have a spare.
Indeed. Those memories are funny. If you put them in an 11/83, they either act as Qbus memory or PMI memory, depending on if you place them before or after the CPU. And that makes a speed difference...
Of course, for all other type of systems, you'll have to place them after the CPU.
There's that 16K board...I could adjust the memory offsets.
Ugh! 16K is not much...
Nope...but MAYBE just enough to fit the lower bits of the executive?
Maybe. But I think that PMI memory is a better option. :-)
Johnny
On Thu, 22 May 2014, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2014-05-22 14:20, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Thu, 22 May 2014, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I've never seen a board with the ability to disable parity...
It's a clearpoint board. Technically it's just disabling the parity
circuitry CSR.
The "***EXEC PARITY ERROR STOP***" message is when you get a parity
error in the memory where the kernel resides.
RSX can deal with memory errors in other parts of the memory, by just
making that memory unavailable for programs to use. But it cannot do
this with the parts that the kernel use, so then it panics instead.
Ahh. Damn. I'd be okay if the only other memory board I had spare
wasn't PMI.
PMI? As the the PMI memory boards for the 11/83?
Yup!
Did you know that those memory boards work just fine as normal Qbus memory boards? :-)
THAT I did not know! Looks like I have a spare.
There's that 16K board...I could adjust the memory offsets.
Ugh! 16K is not much...
Nope...but MAYBE just enough to fit the lower bits of the executive?
First bugcheck is essentially an illegal instruction in kernel mode.
(Error code=110 is illegal instruction, while facility=300 means the
executive.)
Ahh.
No idea why you got that one, though, unless it was a fallout of bad memory...
Could very be fallout of bad memory.
Johnny
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http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On 2014-05-22 14:22, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Thu, 22 May 2014, Johnny Billquist wrote:
With parity disabled and RSTS/E:
https://ghostbin.com/paste/ksd3c a bad ~50K? I can disable everything
above 512kByte which is...i forget how many words.
512Kbytes is 256Kword. :-)
Ahh.
But it's not clear that the address are in Kwords...
It's a 1M board...so it's either at the very upper end of memory or in
the middle.
Unfortunately it is before the halfway point, so you'd have to disable more than half the memory...
(If it isn't close to the total end...)
Johnny
