new acquisition: an 11/73 running RSX-11 v4.6 and a question on cihper tapes & CDC SMD disks/controllers

From: John A. Dundas III <dundas_at_caltech.edu>
Date: Mon Dec 9 11:32:00 2002

Jochen,

Outstanding, I will try this at my next opportunity. I did find a way to
get to the menu by doing a examine/deposit/go sequence (that I don't have
in front of me at the moment).

Any idea what sort of CD ROMs and SCSI disks are compatible?

Thanks,

John

At 10:19 AM -0800 12/7/02, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 02:12:30PM -0800, John A. Dundas III wrote:
>
>> I have a Dilog SQ706A, for which I am unable to find docs.
>I have a SQ706A too. It is quite easy to configure. It has a 10 pin
>connector like the console connector on a MicroVAX II / III CPU
>(KA630, KA650, KA655). Connect the console cable from the CPU to
>the 10 pin connector of the SQ706A, reset / powercycle the machine
>and you get a menu on the console terminal to configure the SQ706A.
>I don't know if it works with a PDP-11 / DLV11 console cable /
>bulthead.
>
>> However it does appear to be a SCSI controller emulating MSCP.
>It is. You can set up SCSI ID => MSCP mapping and CSR in the menu.
>Unfortunately it does only MSCP not TMSCP. But it does map CDROM
>drives as MSCP disk.
>--
>
>
>
>tsch??,
> Jochen
>
>Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz
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