Assuming I eventually get the controller working, I started looking at my cabling and I don't think I have what I need to hook up the drive. A while back I was talking to someone else who suggested using a ribbon cable from the controller to directly inside the drive. That technically will fit if I remove the ribbon inside the drive that goes to the external connectors, but then I won't have a terminator installed. I do have a terminator though!
I think what I really need, since I don't have a cab kit or anything, is a bc80m, which I believe is a ribbon with a ground lug on the controller side, and whatever type of connector the drive uses on the other end. Is that correct? Not that I can even find a cable like that anywhere currently... On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Ben Sinclair <[email protected]> wrote: > Moving the boards after before the DLV-11 was an attempt to see if > Noel's idea around the DLV-11 not passing the grant might have been an > issue, so not completely random! However, I've been guilty of plenty > of random testing before! > > I unfortunately don't have an extender card... I just searched eBay > for a few things, but didn't see any. Do they have a part number or > some other description that I might look for? > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote: >> Even better. Sorry for writing responses without checking what else is in my >> inbox. I've caught up now, though. >> >> And you definitely look like you got a stuck bit in there. >> All of the errors show expected and received data, and in all cases bit 13 >> is on while it shouldn't be. >> >> Could be a bad bus driver, a bad connection, or something more funny. But >> start with the obvious ones. Do you have any extender cards so that you can >> access the card with the power on, and measure signals. Checking the source >> of bit 13 on output and trace if the signal is always on somewhere would be >> a good exercise. >> >> Do someone remember if there are some register in the RLV11 that can be >> written and read back getting the same data out again? That could also be >> interested to test things with... >> >> Johnny >> >> >> On 2015-10-28 21:58, Ben Sinclair wrote: >>> >>> Thanks John, I think the insanity is my own! After changing those >>> switches I accidentally put the M8014 above the M8013. I've swapped >>> them and now get slightly different results: >>> >>> One note, it now takes a while for it to start printing anything, >>> which I think might mean it's running some of the first test >>> successfully before getting to these. Earlier runs would start >>> printing errors immediately. >>> >>> >>> CVRLA DVC FTL ERR 00037 ON UNIT 00 TST 032 SUB 000 PC: 023576 >>> RLMP: CRC OF DA+3 ERROR (SERIAL DATA PATH) >>> CONTROLLER: 174400 DRIVE: 0 >>> BEFORE COMMAND: CS: 112200 BA: 003762 DA: 155552 MP: 175555 >>> TIME OF ERROR: CS: 000200 BA: 005760 DA: 155560 MP: 175554 171554 >>> EXP'D: 145554 REC'D: 175554 >>> >>> CVRLA DVC FTL ERR 00038 ON UNIT 00 TST 032 SUB 000 PC: 023634 >>> RLMP: CRC OF CRC OF DA+4 ERROR (SERIAL DATA PATH) >>> CONTROLLER: 174400 DRIVE: 0 >>> BEFORE COMMAND: CS: 112200 BA: 003762 DA: 155552 MP: 175555 >>> TIME OF ERROR: CS: 000200 BA: 005760 DA: 155560 MP: 175554 171554 >>> EXP'D: 151554 REC'D: 171554 >>> >>> CVRLA DVC FTL ERR 00039 ON UNIT 00 TST 032 SUB 000 PC: 023730 >>> MAINT. FILL/EMPTY FIFO DMA DATA TRANSFER COMPARE ERROR >>> CONTROLLER: 174400 DRIVE: 0 >>> BEFORE COMMAND: CS: 112200 BA: 003762 DA: 155552 MP: 175555 >>> TIME OF ERROR: CS: 000200 BA: 005760 DA: 155560 MP: 175554 171554 >>> BA: 005760 DA: 155560 ADDR: 004762 EXP'D: 155555 REC'D 175555 >>> BA: 005760 DA: 155560 ADDR: 004764 EXP'D: 155555 REC'D 175555 >>> BA: 005760 DA: 155560 ADDR: 004766 EXP'D: 155555 REC'D 175555 >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 3:46 PM, John Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 03:40:46PM -0500, Ben Sinclair wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Well I just figured out something important...The switch numbers on my >>>>> board backwards! I was going over the docs again, and noticed that MSB >>>>> and LSB in their board diagram were on the wrong sides, compared to >>>>> the switch numbers referenced on the next page. I'm not sure if that's >>>>> just the way it is, or maybe someone replaced my switches at some >>>>> point. After changing my switches I can now read 774400, which gives >>>>> me 144201. >>>>> >>>>> The VRLAC0 diagnostic now goes further, but it thinks something is >>>>> wrong. Now of course I have no idea what it thinks is wrong here! >>>> >>>> >>>> Bit 11 of the CSR seems to be stuck on. That's the "bad CRC" (or write >>>> check error) bit ... definitely shouldn't be on after a bus init. >>>> Maybe look at some other registers to see if that bit's on everywhere >>>> (possibly bad bus xcvr if so), otherwise some other insanity? >>>> >>>> John Wilson >>>> D Bit >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus >> || on a psychedelic trip >> email: [email protected] || Reading murder books >> pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol > > > > -- > Ben Sinclair > [email protected] -- Ben Sinclair [email protected]
