Any DEC RSTS folks out there, need help

[Julian Wolfe]

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> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Wright
> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 12:30 PM
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> Subject: Any DEC RSTS folks out there, need help
> 
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I have been working on my 11/44 for a while and finally go it 
> to boot and find the drives. (RA80's) I believe it had more 
> than the (2) I have.  Drive ID buttons say 0 and 2.  
> 
> The system booted RSTS 1 time and of coarse asked for the 
> password.  I shut down the system and went back to the 
> "books" for a while. I then tried to boot it up again the 
> next day and receive the following.
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> CONSOLE
> 17777707 173064
> >>>~
> CONSOLE
> 17777707 173012
> >>>
> User-defined address for Device DZ1: not found - device disabled.
> (this was there before)
> 
> RSTS V8.0-07 EVERETT XXXXXXXX (DU0) INIT V8.0-07
> 
> Option: START
> 
> Disk is being rebuilt - wait ...
> 
> 
> 
> DU0 Error       UDASA   P.OPCD  P.STS   P.BCNT  P.BUFF  P.BUF2  P.LBN
>                 000000  000241  000010  000000  000000  000000  000000
> 
> Unrecoverable disk error on DU0
> 
> 
>  PC=121232 PS=030341 OV=000022 M5=001600 M6=003242 SP=041266  
> R0=000000 R1=077777 R2=042125 R3=172150 R4=041410 R5=140026
> 
> SP-> 026220 000006 000002 150103 000001 041410
> 
> Fatal RSTS/E system initialization error!

How long did you let the disks run?  You sid yourself it had been sitting,
I'd let the disks sit spun up for at least 4 hours.

> On the bright side it did come with a SCSI card.

Ugh! Then don't mess with the RA80s!  If you like to look at them, leave
them there, but they suck way too much power for everyday use.  At least
that's how I feel.

For my 11/23+ I did my RSTS installs on a simulator then used unix 'dd' to
copy the files over to the 10gb scsi disk I use.

For the /34a which has two RL02s, I prepared the images with simh then used
vtserver to copy the images to the RL02 packs. (10MB takes about 2 to 3
hours)

I run v9.6 on the /23+ and v8.0 on the /34a.