Very useful info. Thanks! I was using the ts to install rsts 10.1 because others said they could not with other drives but I tried with te16 drives it worked so now I can use more than one drive again.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016, 10:43 AM Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-09-16 18:13, Gene Irwin wrote: > > Simh seems to only support a single Ts11 drive. > > > > The quick reference guide for the drive specifies up to 4 drives. > > > > Am I missing something or is thus just not coded in? > > I would guess it's just a coded limitation in simh. In fact, there is no > real limit to the number of TS11 you can connect to a PDP-11. > It's just a Unibus device with a bunch of CSRs. You can always just add > another card, if you wanted to, in the floating address space in the I/O > page, until you run out of space, which definitely fits way more than > four controllers. > > But I suspect the four controller limit specified in the manuals are > because of power and/or throughput limitation on the bus. > > simh have lots of such limitations and restrictions on various devices > you can add. > > Johnny > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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