RT-11 ARGH!

From: Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com>
Date: Mon Aug 16 17:51:15 1999

>Zane H. Healy wrote:

> > If it was built with MUB.COM, yes, it is bootable.
> Thank Goodness!

Jerome Fine replies:

Is that just the requirement to copy certain files onto the TK50
tape in a certain order?

> > I have to admit that I'm a bit unclear on what the problem is that
> > you're trying to solve, much less what you're trying to do to overcome
> > the difficulties that you're throwing in your own path :-).
> I'm trying to move my system onto better disks. Plus, I'd managed to pretty
> much trash my RT-11 system a few months ago, when I last had time to work on
> it. Then add in the fact that my system is such a mutant beast (as an
> example the HD controller it boots off of isn't the one it is using for
> disks) that I've never managed to get floppies working on it and you've got
> a real mess.

Do you have any old RQDX1,2,3 controllers and an RX50? On the BA23
box, the I/O distribution panel is standard. In general, I have an RQDX2
with an RX50 on a system that has s Sigma RQD11-EC. If the RX50
does not have a floppy, the boot ROM tries 160334 for the controller
CSR and boots from there.

> The TK-50 question is a result of my having built a V5.4 distribution tape to
> avoid some of these problems, plus having another tape with at least a
> partial backup. This was a nightmare to get setup the first time so I'm
> trying to avoid some of that by recovering stuff off of tape, as opposed to
> jumping through the same hoops I did last time.

If you can set-up a system with an RX50, that should solve the problem
of having a minimum RT-11 set of files that you can always boot from.

> On the other hand now that I'm thinking clearer than I was last night I've
> realized that if I can figure out which of the 4 HD's sitting in a pile has
> RT-11 on it, I should probably just hook it up, and SYSGEN in that
> controller. Which should give me the added benifit of being able to back
> the system up to the old Hard Drive when everything is sorted out.

Don't wait to back it up - do the backup ASAP!!

Sincerely yours,

Jerome Fine
Received on Mon Aug 16 1999 - 17:51:15 BST