RE: RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-06 Thread supervinx
Il giorno mer, 06/04/2016 alle 21.59 +0200, supervinx ha scritto: > Ah, sad and bad news... > Transferred ICP.TSK as usual and checked it with DMP (between simh and > the MicroPDP). > Gave it a try, but got a system crash. > I suspect that the Indirect Command Processor is tightly linked with the >

Re: RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-06 Thread Dennis Boone
> Another curious thing is this... > Dumping the first block with DMP or a Linux/DOS tools gives different > results. > For example: > DMP > === > B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10 B12 B13 B14 B15 B16 > Linux/DOS > = > B16 B15 B14 B13 B12 B11 B10 B9 B8 B7 B6 B5 B4 B3 B2 B1 > Byte se

RE: RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-06 Thread supervinx
Ah, sad and bad news... Transferred ICP.TSK as usual and checked it with DMP (between simh and the MicroPDP). Gave it a try, but got a system crash. I suspect that the Indirect Command Processor is tightly linked with the kernel... Another curious thing is this... Dumping the first block with DMP

RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-06 Thread Mark Matlock
>> The closest RSX11M (not Plus) distribution I can find is an RL01 >> distribution of RSX11M V4.1 >> Since it is disk and not tape it can be directly booted with Simh and it >> does have a ICP.TSK >> that should be pretty compatible with V4.2 since it is from V4.1 Baseline. >> You can fi

RE: RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-05 Thread Mark Matlock
> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:44:26 +0200 > From: supervinx > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > > Subject: Re: R: RE: RSX-11M trouble > Message-ID: <1459795466.2891.10.camel@PIV-Ubuntu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="

Re: RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-05 Thread Glen Slick
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Mark Matlock wrote: > >The closest RSX11M (not Plus) distribution I can find is an RL01 > distribution of RSX11M V4.1 > Since it is disk and not tape it can be directly booted with Simh and it does > have a ICP.TSK > that should be pretty compatible with V4.2

Re: R: RE: RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-04 Thread supervinx
Il giorno dom, 03/04/2016 alle 19.33 +0200, supervinx ha scritto: > Il giorno dom, 03/04/2016 alle 14.59 +0200, supervinx ha scritto: > > Hmmm RSX-11Mplus 4.2 aren't recognized as TSK images by "normal" 4.2 > Well... the files have been correctly transferred... i did a DMP on both > sides > so

Re: R: RE: RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-03 Thread supervinx
Il giorno dom, 03/04/2016 alle 14.59 +0200, supervinx ha scritto: > Hmmm RSX-11Mplus 4.2 aren't recognized as TSK images by "normal" 4.2 Well... the files have been correctly transferred... i did a DMP on both sides so definitely I need a 4.2 non plus.

RE: RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-03 Thread E. Groenenberg
On Sun, April 3, 2016 09:01, supervinx wrote: > Well.. > The RSXM70.dsk has many TSKs not built. > How can I build them? > > A standard RSX-11m distribution in a so called 'Baseline' system which boots an nearly all PDP-11's and is a very basic system. Normally you do a sysgen to build a target

R: RE: RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-03 Thread supervinx
Hmmm RSX-11Mplus 4.2 aren't recognized as TSK images by "normal" 4.2

RE: RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-03 Thread supervinx
Well... the only indirect command processor present on RSXM70.DSK was ICX.TSK I transferred it from simh RX50 disk image to a RT-11 formatted floppy with PUTR (copy /binary) and then with FLX FLX> DU0:=DU1:ICX.TSK /RT Then > REM ...AT. > INS $ICX.TSK >@[1,2]STARTUP.CMD and got a BIG system cras

RE: RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-03 Thread supervinx
Well.. The RSXM70.dsk has many TSKs not built. How can I build them?

RE: RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-02 Thread supervinx
Thanks for your clear explanation. I use simh regularly, VAX based emulation, to transfer and backup data from my real VAXes. I also have a cluster of simh VAXes, so it won't be difficult to get a PDP-11 up and running with simh. I have putr and I've noticed it handles Files-11 read-only: I didn't

RE: RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-01 Thread Mark Matlock
> The SYSVMR.CMD shows that the Indirect Command Processor is named ICP.TSK. > Sadly, ICP.TSK is one of the four tasks that have read issues... > > I need another info: BAD is destructive or not destructive? > BAD is destructive to the data on the disk! If there are only four tasks that have read