don't know how that board uses the SD card, in terms of where it keeps the
RL02 image, but if you can find that out, SD<->USB3 adaptors are cheap and
plentiful, and it shouldn't be too hard to load the disk image into it using
one of them. (For the QSIC, I found a 'dd' for Winsdoze and used that to write
the disk image onto the SD card.)
Here's how the formatting of the SD card is done. First you partition the disk into n 'FAT 12" partitions, one for each drive you wish to connect. Then you pop the card in the emulator board, and run a utility which formats the partitions as "Linux" and you then have n 10.5MB Linux partitions. Putting the card back into your host machine, you then copy your RL02 disk images to the newly formatted Linux partitions.
Here's the full explanation:
> I don't have any PROMs other than what would be on the '03 or '23+
> boards now.
Not a problem: if you hook up the -11's console to another computer, you
can download a bootstrap into it over the serial line, using the -11's ODT.
Thanks for the tip.
Speaking of booting, I have Mini-Uix booting under an -11/05 simulator
(Ersatz-11); I used the RK image from here:
Thanks again.
Oh, I recently realized how to make a bit more room on an -11/03: most
DEC small QBUS memory cards allow you to use half the 'I/O page' for memory,
Sounds beyond me, and not necessary at this stage.
What kind of memory card(s) do you have for the -11/03?
The 256kB card is:
| M8067-KA | MSV11-PK | | 256-kbyte MOS memory with parity CSR
|
I'll keep that for the '23+.
Can you clarify something for me regarding memory? I understand the bottom area of memory in a Unix system is for the Kernel and it's stuff, and that the top 8kB is set aside for device I/O (with the exceptions you mentioned in a previous email about using some of that space). The LSI-11 board has 4kW of RAM on it, and I have already a 16KW board. If I want to further expand the RAM, and say I buy another 16kW board, that makes an arithmetic sum of 32kW for the boards, making 36kW total. Can the 4kW of on-board RAM be disabled, and only the 32kW on the boards be used? Is it ok for the installed RA mto overlap the 8kW at the high memory area? Do the devices spoof these addresses or do they read/write in the high installed RAM area?
Paul