pdp11/83 rsx11m+ system, lots of questions!

From: Greg Elkin <beermat_at_bouncy-castle.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed Apr 10 18:19:22 2002

Hi all,
it's time for me to get to grips with this 11/83 system I got many years ago.
It has a fuji 2246E ESDI HDD hung off an emulex QD21 MSCP controller.
The hard drive is starting to show its age and is making worrying clunk
noises & spin down-up restarts occasionally (have to say that the ESDI disks
had appeared far more reliable than the RD5x drives in my BA123 MicroVAX-II
system, both of which are now bricks)
How easy are replacement ESDI disks to come by?

I think I should image the RSX11M+ system that is on the 11/83 disk (I
restored it from some magtape backups some years ago from an 11/93 system I
was using then but I have no working 9track drives around any more :(

I either need to re-learn MACRO-11 and RSX11M+ programming skills (online
manuals anywhere?) or have some kind person throw me some code to upline dump
every sector from the disk...
Would be nice if I could then use this image under an emulator!

I know that this RSX11M+ sysgen didn't include support for TK50 tapes, alas,
else I could put a M7546 controller in and do an image dump (if I could
remember how to drive BRU that is). And I don't have the 11M+ install tapes
any more. Unless there is a way to re sysgen support for MU (I think that's
TK50 device name?) on the installed system?

sorry to ramble on :)
thanks for any help,
greg
Received on Wed Apr 10 2002 - 18:19:22 BST