Re: advice / suggestion wanted PDP 11/40 only boots XXDP, not RT11

2019-01-31 Thread Paul Koning via cctech
RT11-SJ is less dependent on interrupts, I think, so that might be another thing to try. paul > On Jan 31, 2019, at 3:55 PM, Jerry Weiss via cctech > wrote: > > My recollection is that XXDP tries not to use Interrupts or DMA, unless it > has to. > > I would check out those areas

Re: advice / suggestion wanted PDP 11/40 only boots XXDP, not RT11

2019-01-31 Thread Fritz Mueller via cctech
> On Jan 31, 2019, at 12:26 PM, Bill Degnan via cctech > wrote: > > My PDP 11/40 suddenly lost it's ability to boot RL02 disks except the XXDP > disk. I have two drives, both boot up an XXDP (I have more than one) just > fine, but any formerly-working RT-11 (v 5, 5.1, 5.3) no longer boots,

Re: advice / suggestion wanted PDP 11/40 only boots XXDP, not RT11

2019-01-31 Thread Jerry Weiss via cctech
My recollection is that XXDP tries not to use Interrupts or DMA, unless it has to. I would check out those areas first for problems if it hangs in RT-11. Jerry On 1/31/19 2:26 PM, Bill Degnan via cctech wrote: My PDP 11/40 suddenly lost it's ability to boot RL02 disks except the XXDP disk.

advice / suggestion wanted PDP 11/40 only boots XXDP, not RT11

2019-01-31 Thread Bill Degnan via cctech
My PDP 11/40 suddenly lost it's ability to boot RL02 disks except the XXDP disk. I have two drives, both boot up an XXDP (I have more than one) just fine, but any formerly-working RT-11 (v 5, 5.1, 5.3) no longer boots, it just hangs. I have been troubleshooting, running the 11/40 XXDP tests, but