From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jp@spektr.ludvika.se (Jorgen Pehrson) Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 22:08:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: Moving a RL02.. Message-ID: Hi, I was given a couple of QBus PDP11 on which I'm going to run 2.11BSD or some other version of UNIX. One /73 and one /83. Both had RL02 drives, a couple of RD53's and loads of serial boards and an extra expansion box each. Now there's that little question of lugging them back to my apartment. So, is there any particular precaution I should take when it comes to the RL02's? Are they sensitive to vibrations or something? Do they have to be in some sort of transport mode? Is there some information available online which explains how to operate the RL02? Like how to open the drive, for starters... :) Or how the RL02 controller should be jumpered. (I guess that depends on what else is present on the QBus though...) Is there some other UNIX version that I can run on any of these machines? I already have one PDP11/83 which happily runs 2.11BSD so it would be nice to run older UNIX versions as well. Thanks! -- Jorgen Pehrson HP 9000/380 (NetBSD/hp300 1.3) jp at spektr.ludvika.se DECstation 5000/200 (NetBSD/pmax 1.3) http://spektr.ludvika.se/museum PDP11/83 (2.11BSD) VAX2000 (NetBSD/vax) Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA12528 for pups-liszt; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:18:04 +1100 (EST) Received: from mail-out-0.tiac.net (mail-out-0.tiac.net [199.0.65.247]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA12523 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:17:54 +1100 (EST) Received: from mail-out-1.tiac.net (mail-out-1.tiac.net [199.0.65.12]) by mail-out-0.tiac.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA28527; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 18:17:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jimc at zach1.tiac.net) Received: from zach1.tiac.net (zach1.tiac.net [206.119.129.250]) by mail-out-1.tiac.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA22465; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 18:17:46 -0500 (EST) Received: (from jimc at localhost) by zach1.tiac.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA19857; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 18:17:44 -0500 From: "James E. Carpenter" Message-Id: <199812202317.SAA19857 at zach1.tiac.net> Subject: Re: Ancient SunOS 1.1 tapes --- how to restore? To: rdkeys at seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (User Rdkeys Robert D. Keys) Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 18:17:43 -0500 (EST) Cc: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au In-Reply-To: <199812161520.KAA28340 at seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> from "User Rdkeys Robert D. Keys" at Dec 16, 98 10:20:18 am Content-Type: text Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk > > I just took a quick look at my SunOS 3.2 tapes. The copyright file says: > > > > Copyright (c) 1986 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. > > > > Most of the files seem to be dated September 1986. Many others are dated > > July 1986. > > Speaking of old SunOS tapes..... I have a friend that dug out a pair > of SunOS 1.1 tapes that he has had for years. Alas, they are unreadable. > Is there any way to rewrite those tapes from anyones archival materials? > Sun has graciously allowed pre-sparc materials to be available on-line > in the German Sun3 archives. All they have seems to be SunOS-4.1.1, > though. I could donate SunOS 3.2, SunOS 4.0 (MC68010), and the 4.0.3 upgrade to the archive, assuming they want Sun2 material. I also have the SunOS 4.0.3 _upgrade_ for the 68020. All the tape files are tarred and gziped on a CDROM I burned not too long ago. > I am wondering if there is any interest in some of the early > Sun tapes? Well I'd sure love to see SunOS 1.x running on my 2/120. :-) > Are the 1.1 tapes basically a 4.2BSD port? Are they in > QIC-11 or QIC-24 format? It would be 4-track QIC-11. SunOS 3.2 also came on four QIC-11 tapes. But SunOS 4.x _probably_ only came on two QIC-24 tapes. (I say "probably" because my SunOS 4.x tapes are in 9-track QIC-11 format. I _assume_ this was done by somebody other than Sun so that it could be installed on a Sun2 with older ROMs.) - Jim -- James E. Carpenter E-Mail: jimc at zach1.tiac.net 6 Munroe Drive Plainville, MA 02762-1108 ICBM: 42 00' 15"N 71 20' 00"W PGP: 7ADE9D99 Fingerprint: 8D AF 63 EC D3 51 14 3E F1 59 8A 68 32 63 3F 8E Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id GAA16037 for pups-liszt; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 06:08:18 +1100 (EST) Received: from mail.calweb.com (mail.calweb.com [208.131.56.12]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAA16032 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 06:08:09 +1100 (EST) Received: by mail.calweb.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id LAA04125 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:08:02 -0800 (PST) X-SMTP: helo rgc from rickgc at calweb.com server @12.22.0.83 ip 12.22.0.83 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19981221111758.00905100 at pop.calweb.com> X-Sender: rickgc at pop.calweb.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:18:19 -0800 To: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (Unix Heritage Society) From: Rick Copeland Subject: Problems booting 2.11 on a 11/84 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Dear PUPS List, I have connected a Fujisu M2444 9 track to an Emulex TC13 that is in my 11/84. The following is what happens when I try to boot a BSD 2.11 tape that I made on my uVax3600/TU81+ (@6250 bpi): Enter device name and unit number then press the RETURN key: MS0 Trying MS0 (tape starts rolling) Starting ROM boot 140276 (tape stops) @ The boot programs that are available are quite extensive on this 11/84, it does tapes, disks, just about everything. The M2444 is checked out by doing the test (01 start, etc)and passes all the tests. If I reverse the cables on the M2444 the LED on the TC13 comes on and the M2444 will not do anything. Rick Copeland