> > When was the last time your uVAX-II ran an OS?
> 
> It booted VMS when I first got it over a year ago.  I removed a 9-track
> tape controller board, and that seems to be when all the trouble
> started...  now it won't even boot VMS off of the RD53.

I sure hope you put something else in where the controller was located in
the bus, moved everything else around, or that the tape controller were
last on the bus...

> > Do you have a working TK50? You could try to get hold of a bootable
> > diagnostic tape (MDM), and see if it will boot and tell you something.
> 
> My TK50 drive has actually eaten my diagnostic tape and refuses to let it
> go irregardless of the number of times I unjam the bus or press the
> load/unload button.  (It never did boot it.)

It's a common problem with the TK50. get a screwdriver and open it up.

> Maybe my VAX is just jealous of all the other DEC MIPS machines I have... 
> :)

Maybe. ;-)

	Johnny

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