On Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > > On Jan 2, 2016, at 5:41 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove > <[email protected]> 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). > > No, that's not what that means. > > It does say that micro diagnostics are required; when those are disabled, the > device is rejected because of that failure. > > However, it also says that "XM0: is missing ECO's, but will still function." > That > means the device is enabled, and it should be there and work when you start > the system. More precisely, if it doesn't work that would be for a different > reason. > > > > > 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. > > Tried what with QBus? DMC? Only a DMV is valid on Qbus. > > Mark, here is the code from the RSTS INIT code that generates the "missing > ECO's" message. I'll take a look at why it doesn't like DMR11s.
Thanks for the driver/initialization code! Can someone provide a RSTS disk image and configuration file so I can satisfy what this initialization code is looking for? Thanks. - Mark _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
