Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-31 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 5/29/2019 4:01 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > > Most of the PDP11 SCSI Controllers could build two or more PDP11 disks > > out of one physical device. That is what I meant with partition in this > > case .. There is some logical information on the device, you simply > >

Re: 11/93 Rebuild - SCSI HD now boots RT11

2019-05-31 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On May 31, 2019, at 2:40 PM, allison via cctalk wrote: > > On 05/31/2019 02:04 PM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: >> Hi >> >> Well I now have a bootable SCSI drive on my 11/93. Its not RSTS/E >> (yet) but it is RT 11 and reliable. >> >> Its a bit baseline but it runs. >> >> So next

Re: 11/93 Rebuild - SCSI HD now boots RT11

2019-05-31 Thread allison via cctalk
On 05/31/2019 03:27 PM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: > > On 31/05/2019 19:40, allison via cctalk wrote: >> On 05/31/2019 02:04 PM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> Well I now have a bootable SCSI drive on my 11/93. Its not RSTS/E >>> (yet) but it is RT 11 and reliable. >>>

Re: 11/93 Rebuild - SCSI HD now boots RT11

2019-05-31 Thread Rod Smallwood via cctalk
On 31/05/2019 19:40, allison via cctalk wrote: On 05/31/2019 02:04 PM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: Hi     Well I now have a bootable SCSI drive on my 11/93. Its not RSTS/E (yet) but it is RT 11 and reliable. Its a bit baseline but it runs. So next up was to see if we could get the

Re: 11/93 Rebuild - SCSI HD now boots RT11

2019-05-31 Thread Jerry Weiss via cctalk
On 5/31/19 1:04 PM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: Hi     Well I now have a bootable SCSI drive on my 11/93. Its not RSTS/E (yet) but it is RT 11 and reliable. Its a bit baseline but it runs. So next up was to see if we could get the RQDX3 to co-exist with the SCSI controller. I

Re: 11/93 Rebuild - SCSI HD now boots RT11

2019-05-31 Thread allison via cctalk
On 05/31/2019 02:04 PM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: > Hi > >     Well I now have a bootable SCSI drive on my 11/93. Its not RSTS/E > (yet) but it is RT 11 and reliable. > > Its a bit baseline but it runs. > > So next up was to see if we could get the RQDX3 to co-exist with the > SCSI

11/93 Rebuild - SCSI HD now boots RT11

2019-05-31 Thread Rod Smallwood via cctalk
Hi     Well I now have a bootable SCSI drive on my 11/93. Its not RSTS/E (yet) but it is RT 11 and reliable. Its a bit baseline but it runs. So next up was to see if we could get the RQDX3 to co-exist with the SCSI controller. I switched the base address to 160336 and it does not stop the

Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-29 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Holm Tiffe >> The "--list" command to 'dd' gives a whole bunch of stuff: > aha: > $ dd --list > dd: unknown operand --list I was talking about the program I had mentioned in the previous email, "dd for Windows". The "--list" command to it produced that long list of

Re: 11/93 rebuild - Major and Significant Result.

2019-05-29 Thread Holm Tiffe via cctalk
Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: > Hi > > Due to the help from Glen Slick. (The only guy to answer the > question as asked.) > > What to do is interesting. How to do it will get you there. > > I now have a SCSI drive on the 11/93 that thinks its an RD54 and is > trying to boot

Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-29 Thread Holm Tiffe via cctalk
Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > From: Holm Tiffe > > > You have to have an already existing parition structure on the disk and > > an OS that knows what todo with that. > > The "--list" command to 'dd' gives a whole bunch of stuff: aha: $ dd --list dd: unknown operand --list $

11/93 rebuild - Major and Significant Result.

2019-05-28 Thread Rod Smallwood via cctalk
Hi Due to the help from Glen Slick. (The only guy to answer the question as asked.) What to do is interesting. How to do it will get you there. I now have a SCSI drive on the 11/93 that thinks its an RD54 and is trying to boot RSTS/E. It fails gracefully during the boot  giving

Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-28 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Holm Tiffe > You have to have an already existing parition structure on the disk and > an OS that knows what todo with that. The "--list" command to 'dd' gives a whole bunch of stuff: Win32 Available Volume Information \\.\Volume{cd4ae459-0daa-11e2-9625-806d6172696f}\

11/93 Rebuild - Project resumed - PSU replaced

2019-05-28 Thread Rod Smallwood via cctalk
11/93 Rebuild - Project resumed - PSU replaced Rod --

Re: 11/93 Rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 5:06 PM ben via cctalk wrote: > > On 5/27/2019 2:56 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: > > On Mon, 27 May 2019, Rod Smallwood wrote: > >> On an old XP box? er neither will run > > > > My reply was meant as a hint. You should be able to find a dd-like tool > > for

Re: 11/93 Rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread ben via cctalk
On 5/27/2019 2:56 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Mon, 27 May 2019, Rod Smallwood wrote:   On an old XP box?  er neither will run My reply was meant as a hint. You should be able to find a dd-like tool for Windows yourself ;-) Either by using a old version of Cygwin (there are

11/93 rebuild - Project Suspended - PC died

2019-05-27 Thread Rod Smallwood via cctalk
The Acer PC I was using to write the image to the SCSI drive has gone kaput. Clearly PSU (not plugtop  mains fuse). Its a non standard PSU and no schematic available. Fall back is to get one of the SLU's (other than the console) on the KDJ11-E going and TU58 it. Rod --

Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 5/27/19 9:58 AM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: > Hi > >     Whilst I wait to hear from Glen Slick who has got me this far > (Thanks Glen) I'll restate the problem. > > 1. I now have an old XP system with SIMH on it (PDP11.exe) > > 2.  I have created RD54.dsk containing RSTS/E > > 3.

Re: 11/93 Rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 5/27/19 4:56 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: > On Mon, 27 May 2019, Rod Smallwood wrote: >>   On an old XP box?  er neither will run > > My reply was meant as a hint. You should be able to find a dd-like tool > for Windows yourself ;-) Either by using a old version of Cygwin (there >

Re: 11/93 Rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 5/27/19 4:30 AM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: > Hi > >   On an old XP box?  er neither will run > > Rod > > > On 27/05/2019 08:25, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: >> # dd if=RD54.dsk of=/dev/sda  [or whatever the device name is] >> >> Oh, you said Windows... I'd recommend installing

Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 11:26 AM Paul Koning wrote: > > Looks like f$cvtime is failing, that's presumably a Y2K issue. > > > $ File = F$Left(Today, 2) + F$Mid(Today, 4, 2) + F$Right(Today, 7) > > $ File = F$Left(Today, 2) + F$Mid(Today, 4, 2) + F$Right(Today, 7) > >^ > >

Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On May 27, 2019, at 2:15 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk > wrote: > > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:37 AM Paul Koning wrote: >> >>> Proceed with system startup? >>> >>> Beginning RSTS/E system startup... >>> 19.05.27 09:50 Installing monitor overlays >>> 19.05.27 09:50 Mounting

Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:37 AM Paul Koning wrote: > > > Proceed with system startup? > > > > Beginning RSTS/E system startup... > > 19.05.27 09:50 Installing monitor overlays > > 19.05.27 09:50 Mounting disks > > 19.05.27 09:50 Assigning logical names > > 19.05.27 09:50

Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:37 AM Paul Koning wrote: > > > RSTS V10.0-L RSTS (DU0) INIT V10.0-0L > > > > > > Today's date? 19.5.27 > > > > Current time? 9:50 > > > > ... > > ;9.05.27 09:50 > > Hm, Y2K bug in that version? > It was installed from the RSTS/E 10.0 tape image that recently

Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On May 27, 2019, at 1:23 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > Then boot from DU0, and if everything worked along the way it should > just work. Assuming it boots OK into RSTS/E 10.0, use the SHOW DISK > command to verify that the reported disk size is the expected 311200 > blocks.

Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 6:58 AM Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: > > Hi > > Whilst I wait to hear from Glen Slick who has got me this far > (Thanks Glen) I'll restate the problem. > > 1. I now have an old XP system with SIMH on it (PDP11.exe) > > 2. I have created RD54.dsk containing RSTS/E

Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On May 27, 2019, at 12:14 PM, Holm Tiffe via cctalk > wrote: > > Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Whilst I wait to hear from Glen Slick who has got me this far >> (Thanks Glen) I'll restate the problem. >> >> 1. I now have an old XP system with SIMH on it (PDP11.exe)

Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 6:58 AM Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: > > Hi > > Whilst I wait to hear from Glen Slick who has got me this far > (Thanks Glen) I'll restate the problem. > > 1. I now have an old XP system with SIMH on it (PDP11.exe) > > 2. I have created RD54.dsk containing RSTS/E

Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Holm Tiffe via cctalk
Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > From: Rod Smallwood > > > 4. I need a tried and tested list of step by step instructions to > > put RD54.dsk on the SCSI drive. > > Well, this isn't a list of directions, but... I've had good luck doing > almost this exact same thing (on a Windows

Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Holm Tiffe via cctalk
Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: > Hi > >     Whilst I wait to hear from Glen Slick who has got me this far > (Thanks Glen) I'll restate the problem. > > 1. I now have an old XP system with SIMH on it (PDP11.exe) > > 2.  I have created RD54.dsk containing RSTS/E > > 3. Attached to the system

Re: 11/93 rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Rod Smallwood > 4. I need a tried and tested list of step by step instructions to > put RD54.dsk on the SCSI drive. Well, this isn't a list of directions, but... I've had good luck doing almost this exact same thing (on a Windows XP box, copy a filesystem in Windoze file onto

11/93 rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Rod Smallwood via cctalk
Hi     Whilst I wait to hear from Glen Slick who has got me this far (Thanks Glen) I'll restate the problem. 1. I now have an old XP system with SIMH on it (PDP11.exe) 2.  I have created RD54.dsk containing RSTS/E 3. Attached to the system is a 2.1Gb SCSI drive via an adaptec 2940

Re: 11/93 Rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread W2HX via cctalk
: Re: 11/93 Rebuild Or FLX. FLX 2.6 uses DJGPP and runs on old stuff, possibly as far back as actual DOS and certainly should have no problem with XP. It doesn't do image copy, though. You could steal some of the code and make an image copy tool. Or you could use it to initialize

Re: 11/93 Rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
Or FLX. FLX 2.6 uses DJGPP and runs on old stuff, possibly as far back as actual DOS and certainly should have no problem with XP. It doesn't do image copy, though. You could steal some of the code and make an image copy tool. Or you could use it to initialize the destination disk, copy all

RE: 11/93 Rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Christian Corti > via cctalk > Sent: 27 May 2019 09:57 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: 11/93 Rebuild > > On Mon, 27 May 2019, Rod Smallwood wrote: > > On an

Re: 11/93 Rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Rod Smallwood via cctalk
I think the answer may be PUTR but I'll wait and see what Glen says .. He's been right so far. Rod On 27/05/2019 09:56, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Mon, 27 May 2019, Rod Smallwood wrote:   On an old XP box?  er neither will run My reply was meant as a hint. You should be able to

Re: 11/93 Rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Mon, 27 May 2019, Rod Smallwood wrote:   On an old XP box?  er neither will run My reply was meant as a hint. You should be able to find a dd-like tool for Windows yourself ;-) Either by using a old version of Cygwin (there are instructions how to find them), by installing a stand-alone

Re: 11/93 Rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Joshua Rice via cctalk
Same command will work from a linux live cd > On May 27, 2019, at 9:30 AM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk > wrote: > > Hi > > On an old XP box? er neither will run > > Rod > > > On 27/05/2019 08:25, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: >> # dd if=RD54.dsk of=/dev/sda [or whatever the device

Re: 11/93 Rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Rod Smallwood via cctalk
Hi   On an old XP box?  er neither will run Rod On 27/05/2019 08:25, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: # dd if=RD54.dsk of=/dev/sda  [or whatever the device name is] Oh, you said Windows... I'd recommend installing Cygwin ;-) --

Re: 11/93 Rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Mon, 27 May 2019, Rod Smallwood wrote: In addition to the normal IDE drive it has an additional SCSI controller and drive   Using SIMH  I have created an image (RD54.dsk) containing a RSTS system. I am awaiting the final instructions as to how to copy the image to the SCSI

11/93 Rebuild

2019-05-27 Thread Rod Smallwood via cctalk
Hi   Thanks to Glen Slick I now have a old windows xp system running SIMH Its connected to my LAN so web and file access are OK In addition to the normal IDE drive it has an additional SCSI controller and drive   Using SIMH  I have created an image (RD54.dsk) containing a

Re: 11/93 Rebuild

2019-05-18 Thread Mark G Thomas via cctalk
Rod, others, I have so far been unsuccessful getting my CQD220A for SCSI HD, and RQDX3 for floppy to coexist in an 11/83, at least with bsd2.11. I am eager to hear whether you get both controllers working in the same box, and how. Mark Mark G. Thomas (m...@misty.com), KC3DRE > On May 18,

11/93 Rebuild

2019-05-18 Thread Rod Smallwood via cctalk
Hi Guys    Well the RD53 in my 11/93 finally clapped out.    The CPU is a late model KDJ11-E with everything on the one board.    So its a switch from MFM to SCSI Drives.    A CQD220A will drive the hard disk and the RQDX3 will stay to look after the RX50    I've  put