Tony Duell wrote:
>
> I would doubt it. From what I remmeber, RSX11M 4.x was about 3 RL02 packs or
> 5 RL01 packs, or 1 RK07 pack. 3.x might be a bit smaller, but it would be
> a squeeze to get it onto a single RL02, I think.
Actually, the RSX11M 4.x distribution kit comes on 5 RL02 packs or 7
RL01 packs. The RK07 distibution is on 1 disk and the last form is
on 2 9 track tapes.
> I assume you know about the physical cabling. There's one 60 way ribbon
> that links the control connectors on all the drives back to the
> controller -- the furthest drive from the controller has a terminator
> fitted. And there's a separate 26 way data/radial cable from each drive
> back to the controller.
I have 2 Fujitsu SMD's as well, with the 68 way ribbon cable placed
between both drives (a sort of Y cable arrangement).
Regarding making a bootable RSX system on one of these drives, you
can do it using the following steps.
(I do not know how well you know RSX, so maybe I overdetail the steps)
Boot from the RL02 (> is the MCR prompt)
> ins $ini #if already installed, ignore the warning
> ins $pip # ditto
> ins $bad # ditto
> run bad
bad>db0:/li #lists bad blocks (if found)
bad>^Z
> ini db0:RSX11M # initializes the disk and labels it
> pip db0:[*,*]/nv/uf/fo=dl0:[*,*]*.*
> asn db0:=sy:
> asn db0:=lb:
> set /uic=[1,54]
> pip rsx11m.sys/co/nv/bl:498.=rsx11m.tsk
> rem vmr
> rem boo
> ins db0:$vmr
> ins db0:$boo
> vmr _at_sysvmr
> boo [1,54]rsx11m
Boot information is displayed, and an XDT prompt will show
XDT>g
> tim 12:00 01-jan-90 # RSX below 4.7 is not Y2K compliant!
> sav /wb # saves the booted system and builds the
# bootblock on block 0 of the SMD disk
The system will reboot automatically and you now have a running RSX
environment on your larger disk.
Emulex did made the SMD Unibus boards (others probably too), in my
machine I have the Emulex board, and it can control 4 SMD disks.
Alternatively, to build your CDC disk, if it can be connected to your
11/73, then you can copy RSX from the other disk to the new disk,
and make it so ready for use.
There might however be a little problem on behaviour of the 11/73
generated RSX environment compared to the 11/44 processor (cpu
behaviour).
Merry Xmas,
Ed
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