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
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