Qbus SMD drive question, Kennedy 5300 and Emulex SC02/A

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2 total messages Started by Jeffrey Luszcz Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:48

#238

Author: Jeffrey Luszcz
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:48

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  Well, after deciding to upgrade my system
from a 34a to a 23+, I've run into a snag.
I've been able to get my rl02 drives working
on my 23+ and booting rsx-11 ver 4.0 and
everything else but when I moved my Kennedy 5300
drive over I ran into problem.
  I'm using a SC02/A rp02/03 compatible controller
from Emulex. (circa 1981)
  I have the Emulex board looking for a drive which 
has 700 physical cylenders, 5 tracks and 35 Sectors.
I believe I have the Kennedy drive set up correctly.
 I hardware format the drive using the Emulex controller's
on board formatter,
   @776714/1
   @776714/14003
  
  to format drive 0

  I then boot rsx-11 off the rl02. I have rp02s in my sysgen
and the kennedy worked off this sysgen on the 34a. When I try
to INIT 
  > ini dp0:
 
 I get the message, searching for bad block file
or sofething to the equivilent. I'm going to try to run
BAD tonite after work when I get it from a friend, but
has anyone had expeiriance with this setup before?
  Thanks
   -Jeff 
cc2x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu

Re: Qbus SMD drive question, Kennedy 5300 and Emulex SC02/A

#240

Author: Richard Chapman
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:34

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Jeffrey Luszcz <jrl2@cornell.edu> writes:

>  Well, after deciding to upgrade my system
>from a 34a to a 23+, I've run into a snag.
>I've been able to get my rl02 drives working
>on my 23+ and booting rsx-11 ver 4.0 and
>everything else but when I moved my Kennedy 5300
>drive over I ran into problem.
>  I'm using a SC02/A rp02/03 compatible controller
>from Emulex. (circa 1981)
>  I have the Emulex board looking for a drive which 
>has 700 physical cylenders, 5 tracks and 35 Sectors.
>I believe I have the Kennedy drive set up correctly.
> I hardware format the drive using the Emulex controller's
>on board formatter,
>   @776714/1
>   @776714/14003
>  
>  to format drive 0

I am trying to do something similar, and also request help (Jeff and I
have talked, and between the two of us we are still at a bit of a loss).
I am trying to connect a Kennedy 5300 drive to an 11/34a using a Dilog DU202
board, and am also having little luck formatting it. The manual for the
DU202 also seems to indicate that storing 4003 into 776714 initiates some
sort of onboard formatter, but also that some table of header information
is expected from memory. Apparently Dilog supplied software to do this
when you bought the board new, but that is long gone. Has anyone ever
done this? 

Richard Chapman

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