Cable and termination?

On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM Peter Ekstrom via cctalk <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello to the group,
>
> I have been banging my head against a PDP-11/23 where I have an RQDX3 I'm
> trying to get to work. Actually, I have two RQDX3's but only one at a time.
> It is configured to the factory CSR, 172150, and it has the latest
> microcode on it. When I run the XXDP ZRQCH0 formatter I get the following:
>
> RQDX3 Disk Formatter Utility
> UNIT IS Formattable Winchester (RDnn) or Floppy (RX33) Drives
> RSTRT ADR 145702
> DR>STA
>
>
> CHANGE HW (L)  ? Y
>
>
>
>
> # UNITS (D)  ? 1
>
>
> UNIT 0
> Enter controller IP Address (O)  172150 ?
> What unit do you want to format [0-255] (D)  0 ?
> Would you like to revector a single LBN only [Y/N] (L) N ?
> Do you want to use the "AUTOFORMAT" Mode [Y/N] (L) Y ? N
>
>
> ZRQC SYS FTL ERR  00006 ON UNIT 00 TST 001 SUB 000 PC: 105742
> Fatal Controller Error During Initialization.
>
>
> ZRQC SYS FTL ERR  00006 ON UNIT 00 TST 001 SUB 002 PC: 105742
> Fatal Controller Error During Initialization.
>
>
> ZRQC EOP    1
>     2 TOTAL ERRS
>
>
> DR>
>
>
> I have been booting XXDP and also RT11 over an emulator TU58. And I have a
> BDV11 so it has an LTC.
>
> I did try downgrading the microcode on the RQDX3 to the previous version,
> 3. It was 4. But no luck.
> Am I missing something? This should work with an M8186 CPU board, right?
>
> Anyone have any ideas? I haven't yet, but I plan to pop one of these RQDX3s
> in my 11/23+ and see if it works there.
>
> -Peter
>

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