In the BA23 remember that the two 3 slots are Q/CD, in the BA123 the first 
four slots are Q/CD so you can only use "half" of them.

--Chuck

At 01:59 PM 4/14/02 -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote:
>Thanks Antonio,
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>>         For an RD54, the jumpers are (IIRC) usually set to 3
>>         for the first drive.
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>The problem is what jumpers set it to 3? :-)
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>>         >(b) frustrated I ripped out the RQDX3 board set alltogether and
>>         >   left only the KFQSA and/or the KDB50. But nothing would work
>>         >   without the RQXD card. Is the RQXD card needed?
>>         Did you leave a gap in the Qbus?
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>no I moved everybody up or stuck a grant inbetween.
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>>         >(c) who knows how exactly to set up the KFQSA? There are so
>>         I do have the KFQSA manual somewhere but I
>>         cannot find it right now. Setting it up
>>         involves talking to it with DUP and doing
>>         that from a UV2 console is not
>>         possible (again, IIRC). You can do it
>>         with a UV3 console. If you have a UV2
>>         you need to get as far as booting an
>>         OS for the KFQSA (I'll do my best
>>         not to mention OpenVMS here :-) ...
>>         but you'll have to have someone else
>>         tell you how to do it with Ultrix ).
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>Well, now that I have my KDA50 and if I can get the system to
>work without RQXD then I can boot VMS 5.4. If that has a utility
>to set up the KFQSA, I would actually consider booting it :-)
>The only problem may be that the VMS system was configured for
>a VAX6300, but I wouldn't be surprized if it worked, ... either
>way I wouldn't.
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>>         >(d) this small Q-bus is a real pain. I already destroyed the
>>         >   8-line serial card (one bulky box-shaped component from the
>>         >   rear broke off, is that a capacitor?)
>>         Pain? Tsk, it's an experience! Why do you
>>         think God gave you skin on your knuckles,
>>         if not to leave it inside a computer!
>>         If the card is a DHV11, you almost      certainly knocked off a 
>> regulator
>>         chip.
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>That one had only two pins. Very fine pins for a huge box. I would
>have considered securing the box with some extra pins ...
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>>Preety straightfoward to repair,
>>         from memory.
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>I guess so, if the part can be found. Ah well, I don't really need
>lots of serial lines anyway and don't have room for the card in the
>bus. So what the heck :-)
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>-Gunther
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>Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D.                    gschadow@regenstrief.org
>Medical Information Scientist      Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
>Adjunct Assistant Professor        Indiana University School of Medicine
>tel:1(317)630-7960                         http://aurora.regenstrief.org
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