> > > > What never was clear to me was if you actually could access the serial card > or not from the console. I.e. did it respond when addressing it? If it did > respond I would check that there were correct power supplied to the 1488 > driver. > > /Mattis > > > The M9312 does yes have the terminators installed.
I have not been able to activate the M9312 with the DD11C backplane "behind" the newly-installed core and DD11B backplanes. I don't know if I fried it somehow recently. It was working before. The M9312 is installed on the 4th slot in the DD11C with a NPG card below it. It is also possible that instead I am not communicating with the cards in the back of the bus. Typically I toggle and run from address 165144 from the front panel, then use the console program from a terminal to go from there. Since my recent shenanigans with the backplanes the console program does not appear to load nor run. When I load the address 165144 I see the correct address on the front panel. RUN BUS PROC CONSOLE are all lit. When I enable and start the system the address lights go out except 020 (2nd to last light). The RUN BUS PROC CONSOLE stay lit. When I examine 165144 177570 165146 177570 165150 177570 165152 177570 etc I don't know the status of my M7856 card. There are things I can try but first I believe I should test to see if I am "pinging" to the DD11C at all. I also need to check power output levels and adjust. I am thinking also test the MOS RAM from the DD11C by itself to see what that tells me. I know to address the RAM somewhere other than the 16K space from 000. Bill