On 3 January 2016 at 20:24, Paul Koning <[email protected]> wrote: > I found why. In pdp11_dmc.c, if a master clear is done on a DMR that is not > currently attached, a micro-diagnostic failure status is posted. > > I'm not sure if that's a good idea. In RSTS, this test happens at boot, and > if at that time you're not attached, the device will be disabled because of > that failure status. Attaching later on then won't help. It may be better > for unattached to produce some more benign status (or, perhaps, simply to > result in no communication so DDCMP startup will time out in the same way it > would if the remote system were down). > > So attach the device in SIMH before boot, and things will work. > > Note that micro-diagnostics must be ENABLED for RSTS to work. If it sees > them disabled, it tries again; if they are still disabled (which of course > they will be) that is treated as a failure and the DMR will be disabled. > I can confirm that that works. And that once DECnet/E is installed and running no circuit initialization failures seem to occur. However checking "show mux" still seems to show the DMR11 as disconnected.
Also, this might be more my inexperience, but I can't seem to figure out how to get DECnet to "speak" to the other machine. Cheers, Christian -- Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove STCKON08DS0 Contact information available upon request. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
