At 12:31 PM 9/12/2015, Charles wrote:
Update: The first thing I tried was removing and reseating the boot
ROMs (465A2/469A2), since they did not use good machine-tooled sockets.
Now the boot loader performs normally, no incorrect locations, and
OS/8 boots from Drive 0 whether using the boot key or manual start at
0001. Great!
So of course, ANOTHER new problem shows up... OS/8 boots and runs,
will run PFOCAL, BASIC, give directory listings...
But when I hit a Ctrl-C (for example, during a directory listing),
Drive 0 Ready goes out, the Fault lamp lights and OS/8 halts. The last
instruction showing on the display is 07605, 6213 (CDF CIF 1).
I can hit the boot key and as soon as the drive becomes ready again,
presumably relocating track 0, the system boots back to the "." prompt.
A halt at 7605 means that OS/8 was unable to write the keyboard monitor
onto the system device scratch blocks.
The fact that the drive is dropping "Ready" seems to be what's causing
the halt.
-Rick
