root@logicon.arpa (03/16/88)
[] I have recently been given the task of getting 2.9BSD running on a PDP-11/84 with a dhu-11. The person who was assigned to this task was reassigned to another project and is not available for assistance. We acquired a driver, a Q-bus version, undefined the Q-bus specific code, changed the dtab file in /etc and changed the probe routine in autoconfig. When we boot the system, we get the message "Serious Configuration error" when autoconfig completes. When taken to multi-user mode, terminals connected to the dhu do not respond, and eventually (after 3-4 minutes) we get a "panic: timeout table overflow". There are other problems, like ps giving "not enough memory", but I feel the first priority is getting the dhu11 working properly. Can anyone tell me what is going on with this stuff? Thanks for your help.
beadel@oswego.oswego.edu (Edward F. Beadel Jr.) (05/24/88)
IN YOUR MAIL YOU SAY> > >[] >I have recently been given the task of getting 2.9BSD running on a >PDP-11/84 with a dhu-11. The person who was assigned to this task was >reassigned to another project and is not available for assistance. We >acquired a driver, a Q-bus version, undefined the Q-bus specific code, >changed the dtab file in /etc and changed the probe routine in >autoconfig. When we boot the system, we get the message "Serious >Configuration error" when autoconfig completes. When taken to >multi-user mode, terminals connected to the dhu do not respond, and >eventually (after 3-4 minutes) we get a "panic: timeout table >overflow". There are other problems, like ps giving "not enough >memory", but I feel the first priority is getting the dhu11 working >properly. Can anyone tell me what is going on with this stuff? >Thanks for your help. First which of the many versions of 2.9bsd do you have? The original Berekely code or the code as modified by Harvard and The Center for Seismic Studies (sometimes referred to as the CSS version) or the CSS version as modified here at Oswego? We don't have a PDP-11/84 so I can't say that we've run any of the 2.9's on one, but since the 84 is supposed to be a 73 with a Q-bus to Unibus converter on it, I'd guess that the processor type of PDP-11/70 might be the correct option. If you could get back with which version you are running, our Systems Programmer, Paul Taylor may be able to help you. His address is taylor@oswego.oswego.edu. -ed ****************************************************************** Edward F. Beadel, Jr., Assistant Director Instructional Computing Center SUNY College at Oswego beadel@oswego.Oswego.EDU Oswego, NY 13126 (315)-341-3055