[Simh] Configuring DMC11 Devices

Mark Pizzolato Mark at infocomm.com
Tue Jan 5 03:43:32 EST 2016


On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
> On 5 January 2016 at 00:25, Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:
> > I don't see the " XM4: is missing ECO's, but will still function." Messages...
> Can you explain?
> >
> There's only one DMR11 and one DMC11 configured. When you boot up,
> you'll see:
> sim> b rq
> 
> XM1: is missing ECO's, but will still function.

AAHHH!!!  How easy for it to be the first output during the boot.  I only looked where the network seemed to be coming up.

Thanks.

> Both of the devices are ATTACHed. So the DMR11 doesn't error, the
> DMC11 (DMC1 to SIMH; XM1 to RSTS/E) still shows the ECO message. I'm
> still running git commit ca4a6901; I have not applied Paul Koning's
> patch yet.
>
> Comment out the "attach DMCn" lines in the config and you'll get both
> errors:
> sim> b rq
> 
> Device XM0: internal micro-diagnostic failure - device disabled.
> XM1: is missing ECO's, but will still function.

Once I get the clean ECO check in place I'll also address what Paul noticed but probably more along the lines of what we discussed rather than his initial shot at fixing it.

- Mark


More information about the Simh mailing list