[Simh] VMS 7.1 crashes under a simple COPY

Boucher, François boucher.francois at uqam.ca
Wed Feb 24 16:04:43 EST 2010


I did setup a simh 3.8-1 vax simulator that runs under VMS 7.1
The simulator has 2 disks attached, the system disk, which is a 
4300MB RAUSER  disk, and a data disk that has 44000MB, with a RAUSER type.

Here is a cut and paste of the simh.ini file:
load -r ka655x.bin
SET NOTHROTTLE
SET CPU NOIDLE
attach nvr nvram.vaxpd.bin
set cpu 512M
set cpu conhalt
set rq0 rauser=4300
set rq1 rauser=44000
attach rq0 d2.dsk
attach rq1 disk31.dsk
set rl disable
set ts disable
set xq mac=AA-00-04-00-FB-05
set xq poll=1300
attach xq eth0
boot cpu


The problem I have is with the rq1 disk, every time I want to do a
Write access IO, VMS 7.1 crashes.
If I try the same setup, but with VMS 7.3 as the OS, the write works.
And, on both simulations, I use the same executable of simh, on the same 
Host (Linux redhat enterprise 5.1 Intel 64bits).

As for the capability of VMS 7.1 of supporting a 44000MB disk, well, the simh documentation states that it can support up to a 1TB disk, with extended file support.  Moreover, the same VMS 7.1 runs on a VAX 4000-108
with the disk of 44000MB.

Does anyone did encounter a similar problem?  (And could suggest a solution?)

Here is the copy command done and the resulting crash:
$ sh dev d

Device              Device           Error    Volume         Free  Trans Mnt
 Name               Status           Count     Label        Blocks Count Cnt
$4$DUA0:  (VAXSIM)  Mounted              0  OPENVMS071     2917557   135   1
$4$DUA1:  (VAXSIM)  Mounted              0  HSD31         88823208     1   1
$4$DUA2:  (VAXSIM)  Online               0
$4$DUA3:  (VAXSIM)  Online               0
$ copy bbb dua1:[000000]bbb


**** Fatal BUG CHECK, version = V7.1     UNXSIGNAL, Unexpected signal name in AC                                                                                                   P

    Crash CPU: 00        Primary CPU: 00

    Active/available CPU masks: 00000001/00000001

    Current process = SYSTEM

    Register dump

        R0 = 7FF44C20
        R1 = 7FF453DC
        R2 = 7FF44FC0
        R3 = 7FF44FAC
        R4 = 7FF44FD0
        R5 = 7FF44FA8
        R6 = 7FF44FC0
        R7 = 00000000
        R8 = 00000001
        R9 = 7FF45088
        R10= 7FF45064
        R11= 00000357
        AP = 7FF44BD0
        FP = 7FF44BA8
        SP = 7FF44B98
        PC = 92711D41
        PSL= 00000000

    Kernel/interrupt/boot stack

        7FF44BA0  7FF45130
        7FF44BA4  7FF45114
        7FF44BA8  00000000
        7FF44BAC  243C0000
        7FF44BB0  7FF44BFC
        7FF44BB4  7FF44BE4
        7FF44BB8  92711CDE
        7FF44BBC  9424E0FC
        7FF44BC0  9424DFC0
        7FF44BC4  00000056
        7FF44BC8  00000000
        7FF44BCC  7FF45064
        7FF44BD0  00000003
        7FF44BD4  7FF44C20
        7FF44BD8  7FF44C08
        7FF44BDC  7FF44BE0
        7FF44BE0  00000000
        7FF44BE4  00000000
        7FF44BE8  00000000
        7FF44BEC  7FF44C8C
        7FF44BF0  7FF44C54
        7FF44BF4  80000014
        7FF44BF8  9274304D
        7FF44BFC  00000002
        7FF44C00  7FF44C20
        7FF44C04  7FF44C08
        7FF44C08  00000004
        7FF44C0C  7FF44F64
        7FF44C10  00000004
        7FF44C14  00000357
        7FF44C18  941E7CC0
        7FF44C1C  03000001
        7FF44C20  00000003
        7FF44C24  00000484
        7FF44C28  9270C87B
        7FF44C2C  00000002
        7FF44C30  7FF44FD8
        7FF44C34  7FF44FD4
        7FF44C38  00000204
        7FF44C3C  00020001
        7FF44C40  00000000
        7FF44C44  2BFC0000
        7FF44C48  7FF44CA0
        7FF44C4C  00000056
        7FF44C50  00000000
        7FF44C54  00000000
        7FF44C58  2BFC0000
        7FF44C5C  7FF44CF4
        7FF44C60  7FF44CBC
        7FF44C64  9270BF9B
        7FF44C68  9424E0FC
        7FF44C6C  9424DFC0
        7FF44C70  00000002
        7FF44C74  00000000
        7FF44C78  942366B0
        7FF44C7C  7FF44FD8
        7FF44C80  7FF44FA8
        7FF44C84  7FF450DC
        7FF44C88  7FF45088
        7FF44C8C  00000005
        7FF44C90  7FF452C8
        7FF44C94  00000001
        7FF44C98  7FF44D5C
        7FF44C9C  7FF44D58

    Exec stack



    Process privileges

        96498C00  FFFFFFFF
        96498C04  FFFFFFFF


    Image name = $4$DUA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]COPY.EXE

    Loaded images

<SYS$LDR>NET$MESSAGE.EXE               925FFA00 92606600
[SYSMSG]SYSMSG.EXE                     92606A00 92648800
[SYS$LDR]SYSLDR_DYN.EXE                92800800 92802800
[SYS$LDR]DDIF$RMS_EXTENSION.EXE        92802E00 92804000
[SYS$LDR]RECOVERY_UNIT_SERVICES.EXE    92804200 92804A00
[SYS$LDR]RMS.EXE                       92648C00 92674C00
SYS$NTA.EXE                            926B5000 926B5200
VAXCLUSTER_CACHE.EXE                   926B5800 926BA200
SYS$NETWORK_SERVICES.EXE               926BA800 926D1A00
SYS$UTC_SERVICES.EXE                   926D4200 926D5000
SYS$TRANSACTION_SERVICES.EXE           926D5600 926E3400
SYS$IPC_SERVICES.EXE                   926E3800 926FBA00
CPULOA.EXE                             926FBC00 92701000
LMF$GROUP_TABLE.EXE                    92703400 92704E00
SYSLICENSE.EXE                         92705200 92707A00
F11BXQP.EXE                            92708000 92723400
SNAPSHOT_SERVICES.EXE                  92723C00 92724800
SYSGETSYI.EXE                          92724E00 92726A00
SYSDEVICE.EXE                          92726E00 92729800
MESSAGE_ROUTINES.EXE                   92729E00 92730000
EXCEPTION.EXE                          92740600 9274AE00
LOGICAL_NAMES.EXE                      9274B600 9274DA00
SECURITY.EXE                           9274E400 92757E00
LOCKING.EXE                            92758800 9275F600
PAGE_MANAGEMENT.EXE                    92760000 92769E00
WORKING_SET_MANAGEMENT.EXE             927AAA00 927B0600
IMAGE_MANAGEMENT.EXE                   927B1000 927B4600
EVENT_FLAGS_AND_ASTS.EXE               927B4C00 927B6E00
IO_ROUTINES.EXE                        927B7800 927C4000
PROCESS_MANAGEMENT.EXE                 927C5C00 927D2200
ERRORLOG.EXE                           927F2600 927F3200
PRIMITIVE_IO.EXE                       927F3800 927F4A00
SYSTEM_SYNCHRONIZATION_UNI.EXE         927F4E00 927F9200
SYSTEM_PRIMITIVES_MIN.EXE              927F9800 927FD600

**** Starting memory dump, writing dump to unit number 0
    Header and error log buffers dumped...
    SPT & GPT dumped...
    System space dumped...
    Global pages dumped...
    SYSTEM dumped...
    ERRFMT dumped...
    JOB_CONTROL dumped...

**** Memory dump complete, dump written  to unit number 0

?06 HLT INST
        PC = 94824109
Loading system software.

Simulation stopped, PC: 2004DA19 (BEQL 2004DA1E)
sim>

Thanks,

Francois Boucher



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