Making progress

From: Bruce Lane <kyrrin_at_jps.net>
Date: Sat Jun 27 23:23:49 1998

        OK... I've made some progress. The fault light problem with my RA82 drive
was cured by reseating all the connectors and pushing in the socketed chips
(they crackled most satisfactorily).

        So now the RA82 passes all its tests, but I can't get the KDA-50 to see
it. I've tried a couple of different boards. System is a MicroVAX II, 8
megs (well, 9 counting the CPU resident) memory, RQDX3 in one cabinet and
the KDA50 board set in the other. RQDX3 has an RD52 and an RX50 on it, all
of which are seen no problem by the diagnostics. The RQDX is at 772150 and
the KDA-50 is at the next available MSCP floating address.

        Question: I've currently got both A and B port cables from the hard drive
connected to ports 0 and 1 of the KDA-50 controller. Is this correct, or am
I confusing the thing by feeding it back on itself?

        I'm glad this one's going better than my 11/44 did earlier today...


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Bruce Lane, Sysop, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fidonet 1:343/272)
(Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin_at_jps.net)
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own
human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
Received on Sat Jun 27 1998 - 23:23:49 BST