RK05 interfacing to unibus PDP-11 (was RK05 stuff)

From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Tue Jul 20 05:01:54 2004

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 11:50:10PM -0400, Ashley Carder wrote:
> I looked in my 11/34 CPU box. There's room for a 4-slot backplane.
> I currently have two 9-slot backplanes. Can I use an M9202 to
> connect the 9-slot backplane to the RK11-D 4-slot backplane?

Yes. That's what you should use (as opposed to the older M920s -
they changed the length of the cable to minimize bus reflection)
 
> Also, I have not consulted the manuals to see how close I might
> get to overloading the CPU box. I have the following modules
> in my box, starting from the right as you look inside the box
> from the front:
>
> First backplane:
> 11/34 CPU M8266 / 11/34 CPU M8265 / M9312 bootstrap / M7859 console
> M7856 - DL11-W SLU+clock / G727A / M7891 - 64k memory / M7891 - 64k memory
> M7762 - RL01 controller / M9202
>
> Second backplane:
> M9202 / G727A x 7 / M9302

That's pretty lightly loaded. It's always best to do the math,
especially if you want to add a heavy draw like a UDA-50 or a
DEUNA, but there should be no problem throwing an RK11-D in there,
based on what you already have.

> If I add the RK11-D backplane to the left of the other two,
> then can I use another M9202 to connect the two backplanes
> and move the M9302 to slot 4 of the RK11-D backplane?

Yes. I believe you can also put the RK11-D between the DD11-PK
and the DD11-DK.

Do you have a second M9202, or will you be leaving the DD11-DK
out of the loop for now?

-ethan

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