On Saturday, January 2, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote: > As the subject line says, there's an issue with the DMC device under RSTS/E > 10.1-L. > > When starting the system, when it does the hardware scan, the following > errors are printed on the TTI/TTO console: > Device XM2: internal micro-diagnostic failure - device disabled. > Device XM3: internal micro-diagnostic failure - device disabled. > XM4: is missing ECO's, but will still function. > XM1: is missing ECO's, but will still function. > XM0: is missing ECO's, but will still function. > > There are five DMC lines due to testing. > DMC0/XM0 and DMC1/XM1 are DMC11, with micro-diagnostics enabled. > DMC2/XM2 is a DMR11, with micro-diagnostics enabled. > DMC3/XM3 is a DMR11, with micro-diagnostics disabled. > DMC4/XM4 is a DMC11, with micro-diagnostics disabled. > > From that test we can see that the DMR11 does not work under RSTS/E with > or without micro-diagnostics; and further that DMC11 simulation works but > isn't "up to date" enough for RSTS/E 10.1-L (at least I'm assuming that is > what > is meant by the "missing ECO's" statement). > > It exhibits this behaviour both when starting up SYSGEN.SIL, and when doing > a normal system start-up. The simulator is configured as a UNIBUS machine > (11/94 if that matters); trying it with a QBUS machine (11/93)... and SIMH > crashes promptly. > > > Here's the "show version" output for completeness' sake: > sim> show version > PDP-11 simulator V4.0-0 Beta > Simulator Framework Capabilities: > 32b data > 32b addresses > Ethernet Packet transports:PCAP:NAT:UDP > Idle/Throttling support is available > Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) support > RAW disk and CD/DVD ROM support > Asynchronous I/O support > FrontPanel API Version 1 > Host Platform: > Compiler: Microsoft Visual C++ 15.00.30729.01 > Simulator Compiled: Dec 19 2015 at 12:51:02 > Memory Access: Little Endian > Memory Pointer Size: 32 bits > Large File (>2GB) support > PCRE RegEx support for EXPECT commands > OS clock resolution: 1ms > Time taken by msleep(1): 1ms > OS: Windows: > Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] > Intel64 Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel - x86-AMD64 > > git commit id: ca4a6901
Please create an issue at https://github.com/simh/simh/issues to track and discuss the details of this problem. Do you have device driver source for the RSTS DMC and DMR device drivers? Thanks. - Mark _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
