[HECnet] ULTRIX on VAX

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-09-16 07:17, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Johnny Billquist wrote:


BA123.

5 4 3 2 1
N D R R P
5 4 3 2 1
E D R R P

N = NIC, D = DHV11, R = RAM, P = Processor, E = Emprt.   All slots after
are empty

Hum. Hard to say for sure, but this might be a classical case of you
having the NIC in the wrong place. Move it over to the "E" side...


That resulted in:

-XQA0
?4B CTRLERR, XQA0
?06 HLT INST
                PC = 00000C1A
Failure.

Kept NIC in previously-E slot and put a TQK50 in the former-NIC slot.

Loading operating system image ...
************************************
ULTRIX V4.0 (Rev. 158) System #2: Sat Mar 31 03:23:27 EST 1990
real mem   = 16723968
avail mem = 11991040
Buffer configuration adjusted to run with small system page table
using 239 buffers containing 1672192 bytes of memory
KA650 processor with an FPU
                CPU microcode rev = 4, processor firmware rev = 83
Q22 bus
klesiu0 at uba0
uq16 at klesiu0 csr 174500 vec 774, ipl 17
qe0 at uba0 csr 174440 vec 770, ipl 17
qe0: DEC DELQA Ethernet Interface DEQNA-lock Mode, hardware address
08:00:2b:18:ba:b4
root on bonerhitler:/dlclient0/lolwat.root
swap on bonerhitler:/dlclient0/lolwat.root/dev/swap
swap size - 131072 blocks
WARNING: todr too small -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
Sat Sep 15 18:56:18 EDT 1990
Automatic reboot in progress...
Time set to Sat Sep 15 20:57:40 1990

/etc/nfsstat does not show increasing values.

Using OpenBSD 4.4's boot.mop with no bootparams gives me:
stray interrupt: vector 0x18, ipl 31
stray interrupt: vector 0x18, ipl 31
stray interrupt: vector 0x18, ipl 31
stray interrupt: vector 0x18, ipl 31
spammed but that could simply be a bootblock bug.

Ok. Does anyone remember for sure. Is the BA123 3 or 4 slots of Q-CD? If the DHV11 sits in a Q-CD slot, I seem to remember that there are a couple of jumpers that should be different than if it sits in a Q-Q slot.

The error you got from moving the DELQA, in combination with how I think I should read your illustration of card locations would suggest that it's 4 Q-CD slots.

But all this is very hard to debug remotely like this. I would try removing the DHV11 in order to minimize the components in the system that can create problems. That also means moving the DELQA up to the DHV11 location. It should definitely be on the left side in that case.

	Johnny

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