I.Glendinning@ecs.southampton.ac.uk (Ian Glendinning) (09/18/90)
Has anyone managed to run Express on a PC containing a B008? I have so far been unable to get it to run and would greatly appreciate any tips. As far as I can tell, my B008 is set up just like a normal B004 (no DMA), since I can run TDS on it ok. In this case, I would expect the default configuration file EXPRESS.CST to be ok, so I have not altered it. I tried running the worm with CNFTOOL, but I get an error message saying over and over again that there was an error in the worm and that it is being reloaded. Maybe that is to be expected, since the B008 has a C004 in it, as well as some hard wired links, so I tried using the graphical mode of cnftool to set up the network as it was known to be (according to another worm program called CHECK). Now when I try to run EXINIT I get the following 2 lines: Pre-booting network ERROR: Transputer response available prior to bootstrap Incidentally, EXRESET claims to have reset the transputers. I only have 2 transputers in the B008, both T800s, with 4096k and 3428k of memory respectively, which ought to be enough that it isn't a memory problem. Link 0 of processor 0 goes to the host, and link 2 is connected to link 1 of processor 1. I am sure that the problem is not that the transputers are not reset, since CHECK has an option to reset them, and I tried running it before EXINIT with no observed change. -- Ian Glendinning igl@uk.ac.soton.ecs Electronics and Computer Science Tel: +44 703 595000 University of Southampton Southampton SO9 5NH England