[pups] Re: New Release of VTserver program

[Jay Jaeger]

Well, I had mixed success on a PDP-11/24.

First off, a couple of bugs.

In vtserver.c in the code that loads the bootstrap via console odt, the "C" 
format strings have "%6o".  These need to be changed to "%6.6o" to make it 
work on my 11/24.  Otherwise you get leading spaces.

Also, the code that sends an entire ODT command in one "write()" fails.  I 
had to change that (and the one that sends the "G" command) into a loop 
where I wrote just one character, and then read back one character that the 
11/24 echoed.  Otherwise it just hung.

I suspect both of these changes would fix problems on some machines and 
would not harm any others.

So, I got around that, and the standalone loaded.  (Hooray)  But.....

When I tried to use my RK07 as input ( hk(0,0,0) , I got an error:  sc=1 
cs2=64 er=40  .  Upon examination,  HKCS1 bit 10 was indeed off (indicating 
an RK611 controller) whereas the RK07 bit for the drive at +12(octal) was 
set ON.  So, the error itself is not unreasonable.  But....

I looked at the code in hk.c, and tried it manually after resetting the 
machine, and the code should be getting the expected drive error when it 
first tries to address it as an RK06.  That should cause it to switch to 
thinking it is an RK07, but something is going haywire.  And, if I boot a 
pack, the boot code correctly figures out that it is an RK07 (when I look 
after it reads the boot block off of a garbage pack, Bit 10 in HKCS1 is 
indeed on).

So, my guess is that the code in hk.c is busted in some way.

Are there "2.11BSD for dummies under an emulator" instructions somewhere, 
so that I could hardwire hk.c to an RK07 temporarily?  Or, perhaps can 
someone point me to the physical memory addresses in hk.c so I could just 
patch the array to tell it I have 2 RK07's ahead of time, rather than 
having it attempt to auto-detect the drive type?

Haaaaaaaaaaaaalp  8~)

Jay Jaeger
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