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1. 11 Line 50 The implied instance values are CPU Adr 177744 Vct 0 Pri 0 Slot 0 Clock Adr 177546 Vct 100 Pri 6 Slot 0 SWR Adr 177570 Vct n a Pri n a Slot n a TOY Adr 177520 Vct n a Pri n a Slot n a Switches Adr 177524 Vct n a Pri n a Slot n a EEPROM value The default is 0 meaning no EEPROM available Specifies the EEPROM size in kbytes The decimal number must be 2 4 or 8 For the EEPROM contents see page 31 EEPROM value uses 256 I O locations beginning at both Adr 173000 and Adr 165000 It also has four control registers at Adr 177520 Exit CSR The default is 0 meaning no Exit CSR available Specifies the CSR of the special Exit device If enabled writing an octal 123456 to the Exit CSR causes the Osprey program to terminate Note that this is equivalent to turning off the power on the PDP 11 machine The Strobe utilities use Exit 176460 Line Event frequency The default is 60 Specifies the real time clock line frequency in hertz The decimal number must be from 1 to 1000 If you specify Line Event you must have a Qbus and it must supply the line frequency MemCSR On Off The default is Off Disables the partial emulation of the memory CSR This is required for RSTS version 10 and possibly other operating systems The MemCSR uses Adr 172100 MemoryErrorAddress On Off The default is On If Off disables the memory error address register at 177740 MicroProgramBreak On Off
2. DLVII J January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 67 Configuration Specifies DLVI1 J type multiplexer Con Unit 3 DLV11 J Slot 0 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 176500 Vct 300 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Each additional DLV11 J configured adds 10 to the previous Adr and 10 to the previous Vet Character Options page 43 are allowed Output Modem Options page 45 are allowed DZ11 Specifies DZ11 type multiplexer Con Unit 4 DZ11 Unit 0 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 160010 Vct 300 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Character Options page 43 are allowed Flush On Off The default is Off If On forces a flush of the internal I O buffers whenever the LPR is updated If Off the buffers are only flushed when the LPR is set to zero Unit 0 7 Specifies the line number 07011 Specifies DZQ11 type multiplexer Con Unit 1 DZQ11 Unit 0 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 160010 Vct 300 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Character Options page 43 are allowed Flush On Off The default is Off If On forces a flush of the internal I O buffers whenever the LPR is updated If Off the buffers are only flushed when the LPR is set to zero Unit 0 3 Specifies the line number DZV11 Specifies DZV11 type multiplexer January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 68 Config
3. The default is On If Off disables the micro program break register at 177770 MMR3 On Off The default is On If Off disables the Osprey knowledge of the MMR3 during configuration parsing This does not actually disable the MMR3 It will allow other devices to be configured over the MMR3 addresses e g FlatProm S9 PowerFail On Off BPOK The default is Off Supports INT 24 power fail on an external I O bus On specifies full power fail support BPOK only tracks BPOK and not BDCOK This does not provide power fail support on the Osprey PC PROM value The default is 0 meaning no PROM available January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 72 Configuration Specifies the PROM size The decimal number must be a power of 2 between 2 and 64 inclusive For the PROM contents see page 36 PROM value uses 256 I O locations beginning at both Adr 173000 and Adr 165000 It also has four control registers at Adr 177520 PROMEnable On Off The default is On If Off disables the following KDJ 11 CPU board devices 177520Control status register 177522 Page Control register 177524 Configuration and display register 177526 Additional Status register See KDJ11 E CPU Module User Guide for complete register descriptions PROMType Internal BDV11 The default is Internal meaning the internal KDJ11 PROM BDV11 specifies the M8012 bootstrap and terminator card PROMWrite On Off If On enables write access to the PROM StackLim
4. RXV21 Specifies the RXV21 double density disk Cluster Name MYFILE IMG RXV21 Drive RX01 Drive Options page 43 are allowed The default is Adr 177170 Vct 264 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Deinterleave ON OFFj The default is ON for units 0 and 1 OFF for other units Creates non interleaved physical media Drive RX01 RX02 RX03 RX04 ST506 ST406 ST412 ST419 ST1100 RO204 This is required Specifies the drive type January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 56 Configuration Unit 0 1 Specifies the unit number TU58 Specifies a TU58 controller The original TU58 devices were a serial interface tape device with fixed block formatting The implementation of the TU58 uses a physical block device Cluster Name MYFILE IMG TU58 Unit 1 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 176500 Vct 300 Pri 4 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Unit 0 1 The default is 0 Specifies the unit number WriteProtect On Off The default is Off Controls write protect CHAR Type Physical Devices BB1004 Specifies the Boca BB1004 four port serial card This card uses RJ11 jacks that have only six lines Thus only two modem control signals CTS and RTS are supported The card comes with cables and DB25 adapters that connect these signals to DSR and DTR See the Boca manual appendix A for detailed connector information Note that this board can be upgraded to the BB1008 to provide eight l
5. Unibus ALL Unibus 177510 2 WinExec Launches a co dependent process WinExec NOTEPAD January 17 2003 Configuration Fxx Bxx A hexadecimal number excluding Oxx 4xx 8xx and Cxx Note that this I O range must not be in use by another PC device see page 13 See page 8 for a description of the I O switches and page 13 for a warning about ranges A file name The default is OSPREY UMR See page 1 C1 The files osPREYON UMR and OSPREYOO UMR are the normal files for the new and old Unibus adapters SA The files osPREYDN UMR and OSPREYDO UMR are the normal files for the new and old Unibus adapters See page 7 for descriptions of the new and old Unibus adapters ALL IoRange The default is no Unibus present in the system If you specify Ar then any I O address that is not explicitly used by another line in the configuration file will use the Unibus If you specify IoRange you must give the initial I O address and the count Both are octal numbers and the count is a count of words Delay n command The default delay is 20000 The optional Delay n specifies the maximum number of milliseconds to wait for the launched process to go idle Delay 0 does not wait for idle The given command is launched in a co dependency with the Kestrel If either the Kestrel or the launched program terminates the other will terminate Some files like CMD
6. is actually shorter or longer than one character time The delay given is rounded up to the next time quantum which varies depending on which Osprey product is running and what speed it is running Determine if your board is an Osprey PCI Osprey ISA or OSPREY DCJ11 to calculate the time quantum The Osprey DCJ11 has a large 3 x1 5 CPU on it The gold fingers and the bus they plug into distinguish the other two boards If your board is an Osprey DCJ11 Find the J11 crystal rate Run the Osprey NT system and click Windows Initialization messages Scroll down to find the J11 Crystal January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 141 Appendix B a Divide 3744 by the J11 crystal rate shown If the number is 18 0 Mhz use 18 and not 18 000 000 The answer is the time quantum The time quantum should be between 200 and 300 If your board is an Osprey ISA the time quantum is 250 If your board is an Osprey PCI Find the firmware version of the Osprey PCI Run the Osprey NT system and click Windows Initialization messages Scroll down to Firmware Rev Find the X86 crystal rate Run the Osprey NT system and click Windows Initialization messages Scroll down to X86 Crystal Ifthe firmware is 1 2 or 3 divide 8250 by the X86 crystal rate shown If the number is 36 0 Mhz use 36 and not 36 000 000 The answer is the time quantum The time quantum should be between 200 and 300 Ifthe firmware is 4 or more divide 8192 by the X86
7. 48 RI 52 RTS 51 RXBuff 50 RXDelay 50 Slot 49 TXBuff 50 TXDelay 50 77 UnitName 52 53 54 55 56 57 71 74 96 98 99 Vet 48 11 23 43 11 70 82 11 73 86 11 83 86 11 93 86 160010 78 79 160020 75 76 160440 76 77 164100 92 165000 83 84 85 86 170000 97 170200 85 87 170400 81 170420 82 172100 83 86 172150 59 172440 100 101 172520 99 100 102 103 104 105 172540 81 173000 83 84 85 86 174400 62 63 174440 95 174500 102 176460 83 176470 88 176500 65 77 78 176700 61 177170 58 64 65 177400 61 177440 62 January 17 2003 177460 60 177514 79 177520 82 83 84 85 86 87 177522 84 87 177524 82 84 85 87 177526 84 87 177546 82 85 177560 75 177570 82 84 85 87 177740 86 177744 82 85 177760 84 87 177770 86 1777720 80 177774 87 3C509 12 13 52AKey 134 52Key 134 Abort 113 AC power level 36 Alt C 35 113 AltKeyMode 35 ASPI 14 15 52 97 99 tape 97 99 ASPIDisk 52 ASPITape 97 ASSEMBLER 49 AT GPIB TNT 47 91 Background 136 Base address 16 baud 50 51 153 155 BB1004 65 BB1008 66 BB2016 67 BDV11 84 87 BinFile 36 Blink 136 BLOCK physical devices 52 Index Virtual Devices 58 Block Devices 46 BMP 43 BoardName 36 Boca 66 Boot 113 break 75 BusTimeout 36 cache disk caching 21 CacheSize 36 CALENDAR 81 Physical Devices 81 Virtual Devices 81 Calendar Devices 46 carrier detect 51 CHAR Physical Devices 65 Virtual Devices 75 Character
8. The default is Off This option enables 22 bit address mode on the device including the BAE Register This option emulates the function of E40 sw 10 on an actual DRV 11WA device RevC On Off The default is On This option enables 22 bit address mode on the device including the BAE Register This option enables the feature on actual DRV 11WA devices where as of CS Revision C BAE bit 15 always reads as a one ATTN On Off The default is On Enabling this option enables the Independent Attn Interrupt feature of the DRV 11WA This option emulates the function of jumper W5 W6 on the actual device PIO General Purpose Interface Type Physical Devices DIO48 Specifies the Acces I O Products PCI DIO 48S Digital Input Output Card Note The interface has 3 option jumpers which must be set as follows IENO Open TST BEN TST IENI Open DIO48 11 DLLVersion n The default is 17 A decimal version number Normal Osprey software installs the proper custom version of the Acces I O driver If Acces I O standard software is installed after the Osprey it is possible that a version check error message will occur Use of this switch without prior approval of Strobe Data could result in system crash and or data loss Unit 0 7 The default is 0 The unit number as reported by the Acces I O driver PIO General Purpose Interface Type Virtual Devices January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 78 Configuration DR 11
9. a 227 6 times 4 is only 910 so 227 6 times 5 or 1 138 is the effective TxDelay number of character bits is 1 8 2 1 or 12 1 000 000 9600 12 gives 1250 for the character time January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 142 Appendix B a 227 6times 6 1 365 6 is the first product larger than 1250 Subtractimg the time quantum and an additional 2 gives 1136 for the low CPU load TxDelay The calculated effective TxDelay is 1 138 This is less than the character time 1250 so the host CPU already has a low load COM Port 1 CONSOLE TxDelay 1042 Mode 9600 N 8 1 An Osprey QXP rev 4 running the default speed has an X86 crystal of 36Mhz Dividing 8000 by 36 give 227 6 as the time Quantum 227 6 times 4 is only 910 so 227 6 times 5 or 1 138 is the effective TxDelay The number of character bits is 1 8 1 0 or 10 1 000 000 9600 10 gives 1042 for the character time 227 6 times 5 1 138 is the first product larger than 1042 Subtractimg the time quantum and an additional 2 gives 908 for the low CPU load TxDelay DODO The calculated effective TxDelay is 1 138 This is larger than the character time 1042 so the host CPU will be loaded more heavily Reduce to TxDelay 908 for lower host CPU loading January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 143 Index INDEX January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 145 INDEX Adr 48 CD 51 CTS 51 DSR 51 DTR 51 Mode 51 Pri
10. DOS Type Physical Devices DOSDEVICE Specifies the DOS interface See the DOS Device Manual for programming information DOSDevice DOSDevice DOS Type Virtual Devices DOSDevice Specifies the custom DOS interface See the DOS Device Manual for programming information DosDevice DosDevice Slot 0 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 176470 Vct 240 Pri 4 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr DMA General Purpose Interface Type Physical Devices DCI1109 Specifies the Logical Company DCI 1109 16 bit DMA Interface DCI1109 DR11W Port 0 15 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 76 Configuration This is required Specifies the DCI1109 device number within the system CFG 0 OxFFFF Specifies a 16 bit device configuration register option value See the DCI 1109 vendor documentation for details The default value is dependent on the virtual device type DIRCMD 0xaabb Specifies a DMA direction control field aa represents a mask of the DR11 function bits used to determine the transfer direction bb represents the value which the mask has to match for a write from memory to the user device The default is 0x0200 Funcl 0 for write to device MinSize 256 65536 Specifies the minimum required buffer size in 16 bit words The default is 32768 The actual buffer is defined by a registry setting loaded by the driver during startup MinSize guarantees that at least the amount sp
11. If the file does exist you will be prompted to reuse it You may provide a filename with wildcards if you want to reuse an existing file Getdisk will prompt you for each file that matches in sequence The current block count total block count and block size is displayed while the program is copying and then verifying For non MSCP disks the cylinder track and sector disk address is also displayed If your disk controller is not located in the I O page at one of the addresses searched by Getdisk you must specify where the controller is based Choose option 4 to add a device The add device function will prompt you for the device class the vector address and the device address If you don t know the device class number touch the key and Getdisk will display the valid choices The DISKCOPY sources are provided in the cross assembler See page 131 for more details January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 130 DOSLink and SFX DOSLink and Strobe File Exchange There are two distinct methods to transfer data between a container file or floppy and the DOS NT file system Your container file or floppy must be formatted for RSX or RSTS or RT 11 in order to use these utilities If you want to transfer files while running your PDP 11 operating system you must use one of the DOSLink utilities Directions for those utilities are included in each installation package If you want to transfer files while running DOS you must use the Strobe
12. On January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 74 Configuration If Off disables the Osprey knowledge of the MMR3 during configuration parsing This does not actually disable the MMR3 It will allow other devices to be configured over the MMR3 addresses e g FlatPROM Module 0 15 The default is 5 which corresponds to E in KDJ11 E The module types are Value CPU type 1 KDJII A PDP 11 73 2 KDJ11 B PDP 11 83 5 KDJ11 E PDP 11 93 Other Reserved Specifies the CPU module type S PowerFail On Off BPOK The default is Off Supports INT 24 power fail on an external I O bus On specifies full power fail support BPOK only tracks BPOK and not BDCOK This does not provide power fail support on the Osprey PC PROM value The default is 0 meaning no PROM available Specifies the PROM size The decimal number must be a power of 2 between 2 and 64 inclusive For the PROM contents see page 36 PROM value uses 256 I O locations beginning at both Adr 173000 and Adr 165000 It also has four control registers at Adr 177520 PROMEnable On Off The default is On If Off disables the following KDJ 11 CPU board devices 177520Control status register 177522 Page Control register 177524 Configuration and display register 177526 Additional Status register See KDJ11 E CPU Module User Guide for complete register descriptions PROMType Internal BDV11 The default is Internal meaning the internal KDJ11 PROM BDV11 specifies th
13. Startup 0 CON Console StrobeODT ODT Cluster Name C RSX DUO Size 2048 MSCP Unit 2 Adr 172154 The main difference with this configuration file is that the container file will be limited to 1mb 2048 blocks 1048576 bytes and that the MSCP controller resides at 172154 The container file will be used for the third unit 2 unit on the controller at 172154 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 27 Configuration Note that Name and Size are Cluster details so they must be on the left side ofthe sign Unit and Adr are MSCP details and must be on the right side of the sign Command line When the OSPREY EXE program is invoked a number of switches can be applied to the command line A Inhibit the auto shutdown command B Display the build date and time 99 B name Specify the board name Default is OSPREYO See page 30 C file Use new configuration file Default is OSPREY CNF See page 1 H Display help J file Override default J11File see page 34 K key Specifies the registry key under which the properties are stored See page 98 7 N file Use new configuration file and registry key See page 98 Q Quiet startup mode Suppresses initial logo 999 or splash screen R Display revision number only revision number is also available by clicking Window Initialization messages Configuration file The Osprey configuration file is an ASCII file defining which PC devices are
14. a quoted string all characters are copied exactly except the escape character The escape character is backslash and the one or more characters following define the actual character copied Escape sequence Octal Inserts n 0012 New line 0015 Carriage return X 0010 Tab M 0134 Backslash nnn nnn Octal value 0042 Quotation mark Configuration File Scan Order Since the configuration file is scanned multiple times lines generally do not need to be placed in a particular order The early passes configure information that needs to be setup before the board is initialized Subsequent passes configure information that is required after the board is initialized Some seemingly strange errors may appear because of the multiple pass scan For example the error File not found OSPREY EEP will appear if the EEPFile configuration is misspelled as EEPromFile Example Configuration File January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 29 Configuration Interrupt 12 PC IRQ number IoAddress 320 PC I O address J11File G OSPREY FMTTEST PDP Con Console Standard console Startup ODT StrobeODT ODT CPU KDJ11 E ASPITape Unit 1 TMSCP Unit 0 General Configuration Specifiers AltKeyMode 9 Specifies extra keys that must be held down with Alt C to activate the inner control menu see page 99 This is primarily useful to make it more difficult to accidentally bring up the inner
15. as a disk image container file See the section on page 107 for a container file builder File should be used when the container file is on a network drive or other drive which does not support a FAT 099 cluster provides significantly better performance File Name Z OSPREY IMAGES NETFILE DUO MSCP Unit 1 Cache On Off 999 The default is On Controls the internal XMS cache See CACHESIZE page 31 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 47 Configuration Flush Yes No The default is No When set to Yes forces NT to flush data to the disk as soon as possible after a write Normally NT uses a lazy writer to flush data when the system is otherwise idle Mount Yes No The default is Yes Controls whether the disk is mounted during startup Name filename This is required 99 See page 29 for details about filenames with spaces This is required unless you specify Mount No RX50 On Off The default is Off Enables RX50 style sector numbers Size blocks The default is the current file size Specifies the maximum number of 512 byte blocks to be used The number of bytes can either limit a current container file or extend the container file Write protected files can not be extended UnitName string Specifies the logical device name used for user clarification WriteProtect On Off The default is Off Controls write protect Floppy Specifies a floppy drive accessible through the BIOS Fl
16. case letters and even parity VTPARO CNF Mixed case letters and odd parity VTPAREU CNF Upper case letters and even parity VTPAROU CNF Upper case letters and odd parity January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 119 Configuration Commands 52Key code Remaps the VT52 mode keyboard For PC key names and values see the keyname program on page 117 52Key Fl 0x1B 0x50 52AKey lt code gt Remaps the VT52 mode keyboard in application keypad mode For PC key names and values see the keyname program on page 117 52AKey KPDZERO Ox1B 0x3F 0x70 Key lt code gt Remaps the standard mode VT100 keyboard For PC key names and values see the keyname program on page 117 Key Fl 0x1B Ox4F 0x50 AKey lt code gt Remaps the alternate keypad mode VT100 keyboard For PC key names and values see the keyname program on page 117 AKey KPDZERO Ox1B 0x4F 0x70 Char lt code gt Remaps the standard VT100 display characters Char 0101 0102 All A s show as B s Color lt VT100 attribute Changes a attribute color mapping See page 122 for a description of the attributes Color Underline Bright Red Graphic code Remaps the graphics mode VT100 display characters Graphic 0141 Checkerboard 80ColumnMode The default is 3 January 17 2003 VT100 CNF lt VT100 octal lt string gt lt VT100 octal lt string gt lt VT
17. defaults are shown in square brackets Enter controller address 172150 Enter unit number 0 When you start with J11File OSPREY CHK as on page 11 the diagnostic startup screen is displayed instead of the boot startup screen See page 25 for a description of the diagnostic January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 21 Startup STARTKEY STARTKEY is a DOS utility that will add pre loaded responses to the OSPREY J11 file The program creates a file called OSPREY AUT that you must specify in your OSPREY CNF file JllFile OSPREY AUT Use modified startup program To use STARTKEY boot Osprey normally first Write down each key that you touch Since the STARTKEY program only modifies the J11File you may stop writing keys down after you boot any operating system After you recorded all the keys run the STARTKEY program and type exactly the same keys into it When you are done touch Alt X Modify your configuration file see above and boot Osprey again The keys you typed should boot your system automatically There is a limit of 256 key values Most keys use only one key value but function keys and some other keys will use three key values The program will abort if you type too many The sources for the Osprey startup modules OSPREY J11 and OSDIAG J11 are provided in the cross assembler See page 131 for more information January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 22 Startup January 17 2
18. errors or does not say No errors detected then the PC is not reliable The program will run indefinitely or until the ESC key is pushed The diagnostic should run at least a few cycles overnight is better For machines with very large amounts of free disk space the D can be replaced by D bytes where bytes is no more than half the free space January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 18 PC Software Utilities January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 19 Startup STARTUP Default Startup File OSPREY J11 is the default memory image loaded see J11File on page 34 when the Osprey is invoked The program will initially display this screen Welcome to the Osprey Co Processor Startup code version 7 30 February 1 2000 Please press the ESC key to continue Any key other than ESC will re display the startup code version screen The startup code displays a menu of options after it receives ESC Osprey Startup Bootstrap Menu Disk Ctlr Drives Tape Ctlr Drives 1 MSCP RAxx RC25 RD5x RX33 RX50 21 TMSCP TK50 TU81E 2 RH11 RH70 RP04 5 6 7 RMO2 3 5 80 RS03 4 22 TS11 TSV11 TSV05 TU80 3 RL11 RLV11 RLO1 RLO2 23 TMI1 TMA11 TE10 TU10 4 RX11 RX211 RX01 RX02 RX03 RX04 24 RHxx TMO3 16 077 25 DLIl DLV11i TU5S 6 RK611 RK711 RK06 RK07 dece REI RKO5 RKOSF Ethernet 8 FWDx106 RX01 2 various Winchesters 30 DEQNA Boot procedures will ask for a base address and unit number The
19. for BB2016 Specifies the Boca BB2016 sixteen port serial card Note that the BB2016 uses an external box to provide the 16 RJ45 connections This box contains the logic that is powered from the PC I O bus through the connector cable This cable MUST be connected when the system is powered up The RJ45 connectors have 10 signals so this board provides full modem control Replaced by COM BB2016 Port 2 DLV11 Port 1 16 This is required Specifies which port to use Flow CTS The default is no flow control January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 58 Configuration Enables CTS RTS flow control or XON XOFF flow control 16550 On Offj The default is Off Enables the 16550 fifo IoAddress address The default is 100 A hexadecimal base I O address for the Port Interrupt irq The default is 4 If you have a COMI port you will need to change the IRQ on the BOCA Specifies the PC IRQ that the board is configured for CharPipe Specifies a named pipe CharPipe Name mypipe DLV11 Input Modem Options page 45 are allowed LSRMST 00 FF The default is no LSRMST line status modem status support The hexadecimal number represents the LSRMST escape character A value of zero indicates the driver should disable LSRMST insertion mode A nonzero value is the caller supplied LSRMST escape character Please see page 131 for a more complete description of LSRMST Name pipe na
20. for Mode The CS11 requires the baud rate to be set under program control The baud rates supported as in the original device are 50 75 110 134 5 150 200 300 600 1200 1800 2400 4800 and 9600 Flush On Off The default is Off If On forces a flush of the internal I O buffers whenever the LPR is updated If Off the buffers are only flushed when the LPR is set to zero Unit 0 15 Specifies the line number DHII Specifies DH11 type multiplexer Con Unit 2 DH11 Unit 0 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 160020 Vct 300 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Character Options page 43 are allowed except for Mode The DH11 requires the baud rate to be set under program control The baud rates supported as in the original device are 50 75 110 134 5 150 200 300 600 1200 1800 2400 4800 and 9600 Flush On Off The default is Off If On forces a flush of the internal I O buffers whenever the LPR is updated If Off the buffers are only flushed when the LPR is set to zero Unit 0 15 Specifies the line number DHUII Specifies DHUI1 type multiplexer Con Unit 2 DHU11 Unit 0 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 160440 Vct 300 Pri 4 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Character Options page 43 are allowed Flush On Off The default is Off January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 66 Configuration If On forces a flush of
21. has failed In our experience the parity circuit fails long before the January 17 2003 Configuration 12048 4294967295 The default is no limit Limits the allowable byte size of the log file 1 1000 The default is 2 special 256KB S 1 MBS 2MB 4MB The default is 4MB Special The PCI boards can specify a large number of memory sizes given in KW KB MW MB or B bytes If you specify an illegal value the system will give you the two nearest valid values You may specify whole numbers or halves or quarters A PC key name The default is the keypad NumLock key Use KEYNAME page 117 to see valid names On Offi The default is On Osprey User s Manual Page 35 PasteDelays memory circuits are unreliable In a situation where the Osprey must keep running until a replacement arrives this will disable the parity circuit NT _ Specifies the delay between characters when Edit Paste is selected from the menu Performance Specifies the J11Crystal speed to run the Osprey see page 33 C Some motherboards will not allow the Osprey PCI cards with firmware version before 2 to run at the slowest performance settings e g 11 03 Using this configuration line may cause a PC lockup for those machines See HWDIAG on page 11 for the firmware revision COn the PCI card virtual I O and bus I O processor speed is related to the J11Crystal See page 33 for a complete
22. initial state of the RTS line DTR On Off Specifies the initial state of the DTR line Common Options for Physical Device Configuration Input Modem Configuration CD On Off The default is Off Specifies the initial condition of carrier detect CTS On Off The default is Off Specifies the initial condition of clear to send DSR On Off The default is Off Specifies the initial condition of data set ready RI On Off The default is Off Specifies the initial condition of ring indicator BLOCK Type Physical Devices ASPIDisk Uses the ASPI interface See page 12 for installation requirements ASPIDisk Adapter 0 Drive 1 MSCP Unit 0 Adapter 0 7 The default is 0 This is not allowed with Name Specifies the SCSI controller number The first adapter is 0 This is only used if more than one SCSI controller is present in the system Buffer 512 4294966784 00 The default is 64512 Specifies the disk transfer buffer size This number must be a multiple of 512 Cache On Off 099 The default is On Controls the internal XMS cache See CACHESIZE page 31 Drive Generic The default is Generic Specifies the drive type NT Name aspiname January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 45 Configuration This is required if NT has assigned a name Specifies the NT name for the disk drive You may need to use DOSDEV to determine the correct Name Page 12 Unit 0 15 This i
23. is started from Start Programs Osprey Container File Builder The container file builder can not build a single container file larger than 2 147 483 646 bytes 2GB 2 bytes u P99 Selecting a Drive from the Men The up and down arrow keys select different drives If there are too many drives to fit on one screen the remaining ones will become visible when the cursor goes off the bottom or top of the screen Page up and Page down will move the list a page at a time If you want to select an option quickly begin typing the first few letters of the drive name CONTAINR will display the drive that begins with the letters you typed Selecting a Drive from the Command Line The drive may be fully specified on the command line This allows batch processes to build container files The drive size should be specified in one of three ways See the help screen page 109 1 Specify D name The configuration file must contain a definition with Drive name e g CONTAINR C MYRDS4 D RD54 2 Specify B or L or K or M with the correct container file size e g CONTAINR CAMYRD54 M 160 3 Specify H and S and T with the desired parameters January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 107 Container File Builder e g CONTAINR C FLOPPY IMG H 1 8 10 T 80 Configuration File CONTAINR reads a configuration file for the interactive menu and for the D name command line option The con
24. options are available via a CharPipe When Osprey NT starts it creates the Control Pipe with the same name as the Osprey board typically osprey0 An application can send commands to this pipe via Strobe Data s VTPIPE or other Windows NT named pipe program to control the Osprey Only advanced administrative users will need to use this feature Warning The control pipe allows the Osprey to be shutdown ode Function Halt the Osprey Like clicking Control Halt Continue the Osprey Like clicking Control Continue Reboot the Osprey Like clicking Control Reboot Shutdown the Osprey Like clicking File Shutdown and exit Get status from the Osprey H halted R running Maximize the Osprey parent window Minimize the Osprey parent window Restore the Osprey parent window m t U pU ANI Device Menus Disks Tapes Consoles and Printers may be configured and changed while the Osprey is running Click the type of device you wish to configure then select the particular device The Osprey will show you all configurable options January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 92 Configuration sprey cnf File Dump Memory Image s Somer sl il a Memory Image Files m11 m85 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 93 Configuration sprey cnf Edit Properties Set Switches Value 0 January 17 2003 Osprey User
25. used to emulate Digital minicomputer devices The default configuration file name is OSPREY CNF See page 1 Blank lines and comments in the configuration file are ignored comment is defined as anything which follows a semicolon Upper case and lower case are treated equally except when contained within quotation marks Tabs and spaces are treated equally except when contained within quotation marks At least one space or tab must separate each option or specifier from other options and specifiers A configuration file may include other configuration files This is a handy way to have a base configuration that is included in multiple special purpose configurations The way to include a file is Include filename You may use environment variables in the configuration file If you have the variable MYJ11 OSPREY J11 set for example and use J11File MyJ11 then the Osprey will replace the variable and actually use J11File OSPREY J11 If you need to include a in your configuration file put two together e g 3 Each line in the configuration file contains a single definition The general format is specifier specifier When the connection is defining a virtual to physical device connection the order of the specifiers is physical PC specifier virtual Digital specifier Each device is classified by its type eg CHAR BLOCK The virtual and the physical devices in a definition must have the same type Some specifiers
26. 0 Filtering spares DECnet of having to do it when it is running on an ethernet LAN with other non DECnet systems that use broadcasts DECnet Yes will cause DECnet to fail if it expects to receive frames from source addresses that do not begin with AA 00 ForceXsum Yes Noj January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 81 Configuration The default is No Forces valid length and checksum fields into the ROM image The default assumes the ROM image already has valid fields or does not require them Name devicename Specifies the NT device name You may need to use DOSDEV to determine the correct Name See page 12 ROM filename The default is XHBOOT ROM Specifies the boot ROM The source to this file is available in the cross assembler at http www strobedata com osprey pdpxasm exe RxPkts 1 1000 The default is 10 Specifies the number of simultaneous receive packets W3 On Off The default is On which disables the sanity timer Controls the W3 jumper The W3 jumper controls the sanity timer disable NET Type Virtual Devices DEQNA Specifies DEQNA network NA509 DEQNA Delay off Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 174440 Vct 000 Pri 4 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr plus 16 Delay On Off The default it OFF Delays the CSR read time Some diagnostics will fail without this artificial delay ODT Type Physical Devices StrobeODT Specifies the Strobe PC console ODT in
27. 003 Osprey User s Manual Page 23 EXAMPLE CNF The Osprey is shipped with an example configuration file named EXAMPLE CNF This will run some base memory and disk diagnostics NDSimply choose the Diagnose system high level to invoke EXAMPLE CNF If you have installed multiple boards in your machine this diagnostic may only be run on one board at a time OSPREY CHK Osprey Chk Example Osprey configuration file Interrupt NumlockKey MemorySize CON Startup StrobeODT CPU JllFile File Name TESTDISK DUO Size 4096 10 F12 4MB Console 0 ODT KDJ11 1 OSPREY E Line 60 CHK MSCP Unit 0 When you start Osprey using example cnf you will see the following screen Osprey Diagnostics Menu 1 Memory 2 Memory size 3 Disk 4 New disk 5 Write signature Enter option Option 1 Test memory This test will run indefinitely unless you press a key or shut down the Osprey If you press a key the test may wait several seconds until it finishes an operation Hit any key to exit Testing Memory Total Blocks January 17 2003 128 8016 blocks All Blocks Compare Errors 0 Osprey User s Manual Page 25 Osprey Chk Reads 2 4 0 0 Read Errors 0 Writes 0 1 Write Errors 0 Option 2 Memory size This will set the memory size of the Osprey used during testing The default is 4mb and should not be
28. 00B network card which is in use by the standard NT network driver To allow Windows NT to use one or more 3C900B cards at the same time that Osprey NT uses one or more different 3C900B cards configure the Windows NT network first Osprey NT can then use the remaining unused by Windows 3C900B cards After the software is installed the NT system must be restarted to load the drivers If any driver fails to load NT will display a message directing you to the Event Viewer program to see the detailed error descriptions The Event Viewer program is found in the Administrative Tools program group Getting new versions of the software The most recent versions of Osprey software and utilities are available on the Strobe Data ftp site and web site You may also retrieve software get technical support or get marketing information via the Internet All information is available via the home page Home Page http www strobedata com Anonymous ftp ftp mail strobedata com Marketing sales sales strobedata com Tech support support strobedata com System verification 99 Once the hardware and software have been installed go to the OSPREY directory and type HWDIAG This provides a quick test of all major components and data paths on the Osprey board A simple board diagnostic will run When HWDIAG passes go to the OSPREY directory and type OSPREY C EXAMPLE CNF The Osprey will give you several options See the section on
29. 100 octal lt string gt lt VT100 octal lt string gt lt octal code gt lt PC attribute gt lt octal code gt lt decimal code gt code s gt code s gt code s gt code s gt Osprey User s Manual Page 120 VT100 CNF Changes the PC video mode used to support the VT100 80 column mode For video modes see the documentation for SCRMODE beginning on page 125 80ColumnMode 2 132ColumnMode 099 decimal code The default is 0x55 Changes the PC video mode used to support the VT100 132 column mode For video modes see the documentation for SCRMODE beginning on page 125 80ColumnMode 0x57 IDString LD codes string The default is 033 1 0c Specifies the I D String returned when the VT100 is queried with ESC c or ESC Z in VT100 mode IDString Type VT100 VT52 GENRAD The default is VT 100 Specifies the default start up mode for the emulation Many programs will send codes to the VT100 that will override this mode Type GENRAD Special Configuration Considerations NDNUMLOCK is a valid key name and may be mapped just like any other key E g NumLock 0x1B 0x4F 0x50 Make NumLock behave like PFI PO9 The VT100 emulator can not map NumLock key directly but the Osprey can Therefore first switch the NumLock key with another key see NumLockKey on page 35 and then map the other key using VT100 CNF The following ex
30. 10000 The default is no replacement control table Specifies the size of a single replacement control table in blocks All the RCT blocks are subtracted from the actual physical media size If you do not specify RBNs or Count RCTSize sets the values to 1 Stepl Delay 0 5000000 The default is 50000 Number of microseconds to delay before completing step 1 initialization Some systems RSX with UNIBUSMAP ON require a very slow step 1 initialization If SteplDelay is not specified there are actually two interrupts posted one very quickly and the other one at the default time Setting SteplDelay to any value disables the first interrupt The first very fast interrupt is required for some systems RSTS and not allowed for some others RSX V2 1 Unit 0 255 Specifies the unit number 11 Specifies the RF11 18 bit disk controller Cluster Name MYFILE IMG RF11 Drive Options page 43 are allowed The default is Adr 177460 Vct 204 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Drive RS11j The default is RS11 Specifies the drive to determine the type class and model RHI11 Specifies the RH11 18 bit disk controller The RH11 and the RPJ04 controllers are the same for Type RP04 Cluster Name MYFILE IMG RH11 Drive RS03 Drive Options page 43 are allowed The default is Adr 176700 Vct 254 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 52 Config
31. 27 E x RX50 12 13 30 53 54 55 56 OSPREY BIN 1 17 36 57 59 123 OSPREY CHK 1 14 26 29 RD51 59 RXDelayDefault 43 OSPREY CNF 1 26 33 136 RD52 59 RXV11 46 64 OSPREY EEP 1 35 36 37 RD53 59 RXV21 46 65 OSPREY EXE 33 RD54 30 31 59 121 123 124 P OSPREY IOT 1 38 RealTime 42 RZL23 59 OSPREY J11 1 25 26 33 40 removable media 106 113 RZL24 59 149 150 Reverse 136 OSPREY PRM 1 42 97 Reverse Video 136 OSPREY UMR 1 44 2 86 1 45 m luris 30746 Dn SCANIO 143 EUNT 70 30 46 61 101 SCRMODE 139 Osprey TX 1 RH70 TM03 48 101 SCSI 14 15 34 52 98 99 ring indicator 52 Serial ports 17 RK05 30 SFX 147 RK06 30 Shell to DOS 113 RK07 30 SMARTDRV 21 53 Parallel ports 17 RK11 30 46 61 SMX 46 74 parity 85 RK611 30 46 61 62 sources 149 ParityCheck 41 RK711 30 46 62 OSPREY J11 26 PASM 149 RLO1 30 62 63 SpashGraphic 43 PC considerations 11 RL02 30 62 63 splash screen 33 PC I O address 10 RL05 62 SplashBorder 43 PC interrupt 10 30 46 62 ST1100 58 64 65 PDPXASM 149 211 46 63 57406 58 64 65 68 RLV12 30 46 63 ST412 58 64 65 Power level 36 RM02 60 61 ST419 58 64 65 PowerFail 83 86 RM03 60 61 ST506 58 64 65 printer 79 RMO 69 01 Startup 25 43 Printer 72 Step1Del 60 103 iori RO204 58 64 65 ato gt PriorityClass 42 H ES Strobe Data bulletin board 13 PRMFile 42 REUS 0501 Strobe 17 74 PROM 402 47 83 84 86 87 RPO05 60 61 StrobeMux 12 1
32. 3 Osprey User s Manual Page 96 Configuration Osprey cnf January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 97 Configuration Properties The properties above along with the window positions are saved in the registry The key name under which they are stored is HKEY CURRENT USER Software Strobe Data keyname The keyname is Osprey by default though that may be selected by either the K keyname or the N filename command line switch K keyname simply specifies a different key name to save the properties under This is especially useful in a multi card installation where it is useful to specify different window positions for each Osprey installed in your machine The keyname must be from one to eighty characters long and consist entirely of the alphabet numbers and the following twelve special characters 1 amp _ N filename takes a configuration filename exactly like C filename does The filename specified will also set the K keyname to the base filename no extension or drive or folder Note that your filename must not contain illegal keyname characters or the Osprey will signal an error January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 98 Osprey Control Menu OSPREY CONTROL MENU The Osprey control menu can be activated while the Osprey is executing by striking Alt C see page 30 for Alt C modifiers The Osprey is suspended at that point and the inner control menu is displayed A reverse v
33. 44 Vct 0 Pri 0 Slot 0 Clock Adr 177546 Vct 100 Pri 6 Slot 0 SWR Adr 177570 Vct n a Pri n a Slot n a TOY Adr 177520 Vct n a Pri n a Slot n a Switches Adr 177524 Vct n a Pri n a Slot n a EEPROM value The default is 0 meaning no EEPROM available Specifies the EEPROM size in kbytes The decimal number must be 2 4 or 8 For the EEPROM contents see page 31 EEPROM value uses 256 I O locations beginning at both Adr 173000 and Adr 165000 It also has four control registers at Adr 177520 Exit CSR The default is 0 meaning no Exit CSR available Specifies the CSR of the special Exit device If enabled writing a 123456 to the Exit CSR causes the Osprey program to terminate Note that this is equivalent to turning off the power on the PDP 11 machine Line Event frequency The default is 60 Specifies the real time clock line frequency in hertz The decimal number must be from 1 to 1000 If you specify Line Event you must have a Qbus and it must supply the line frequency MemCSR On Off The default is Off Disables the partial emulation of the memory CSR This is required for RSTS version 10 and possibly other operating systems The MemCSR uses Adr 172100 MemoryErrorAddress On Off The default is Off If On enables the memory error address register at 177740 MicroProgramBreak On Off The default is Off If On enables the micro program break register at 177770 MMR3 On Off The default is
34. 5 10 0 69 0 3125 20 0 09 0 3125 30 0 79 0 3125 36 0 9 The default is 9 0 The default is 18 000717 D The default is 27 0079 The default is 36 09 This decimal number indicates the megahertz of the J11 clock actual rate used by the board is determined by a function but will be as close as possible to the value given whole megahertz will match exactly The following values for J11Crystal are used for the Performance option with Osprey ISA Osprey PCI Crystal rates must be multiplied by two for the Osprey DCJ11 E g glicrystal 0 4 for Performance 11 03 Osprey User s Manual Page 33 12 14 4 18 24 or 36 Ji Crystal rates below 8 have little effect on the I O speed In particular the I O processor speed can be calculated by dividing 72 by the J11Crystal dropping any fractional portion Multiply that integer by JliCrystal and divide by two The result is the I O processor speed JllCrystal 18 0 J11File Specifies the initial contents of J11 processor memory JllFile OSPREY J11 LogBuffers Strobe Data internal command Specifies the number of log buffers LogBuffers 2 LogFile Strobe Data internal command Specifies the log filename Special characters will generate time information An asterisk followed by a letter will insert date or time information d day 01 31 H is January 17 2003 Configuration J11
35. 7 93 94 97 REDO e StrobeODT 95 Virtual Devices 97 RP07 60 61 PROM Devices 47 RPJ04 60 STROBEODT 117 PROMFile 43 RQDXI 59 support 14 Putdisk 143 RQDX2 59 switches 84 87 Putdisk 143 RODX3 59 Switches RODZI 59 command line 33 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 148 Index a MUSS VTIOO CNF VT240 133 TE ama E physical devices 97 Key definitions 134 Virtual Devices 99 UCOFile 43 Tape Devices 47 UDA50 59 Title 43 UMRFile 44 TM03 100 101 Underline 136 WinExec 45 TM11 48 102 Underscore 136 World Wide Web 13 TMAII 48 102 Unibus12 16 38 45 85 87 88 WWW 13 149 TMSCP 16 34 35 48 97 98 143 or p TOK50 102 103 delay cycles 38 TS04 48 103 UMRAddress 44 TS11 48 104 UMRFile 44 SOC UT 2 TSV05 48 105 X86File 45 11 48 104 Xilinx 7 TUL 100 101 is 20 TU45 100 101 XOFF 66 67 68 72 74 TUS8 48 65 105 VMS 59 XON 66 67 68 72 74 TU77 100 101 VRUII 80 081 103 VT100 1 41 131 133 134 TXDelay 50 135 136 139 140 149 TXDelayDefault 43 VOLUN reset 133 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 149
36. C54 Specifies DR 11C 16 bit PIO Interface DIO48 DR11C Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 167770 Vct 300 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Sync On Offj The default is Off If On pauses the J11 CPU such that I O reads from the DR11C device give instantaneous physical device information Some diagnostics might expect sequential write read instructions to return updated information If Off reads from the DR11C give the most recent status reported by the physical device GPIB Type Physical Devices AT GPIB TNT Specifies the National Instruments TNT4882 IEEE controller AT GPIB TNT TimeBytes Off IEQ11 HighSpeedT1 On Off The default is Off If On ultra short T1 delay Interrupt irq The default is 11 Specifies the PC IRQ that the TNT4882 is configured for IoAddress address The default is 2 0 A hexadecimal base I O address for the board PP1 On Off The default is Off If On Parallel poll remotely configurable SPEOI On Off The default is Off If Off EOI sent false in SPAS TimeBytes On Off The default is On If On byte I O restarts the timer Timeout 0 15 The default is 0 Specifies the TNT4882 time out factor January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 79 Configuration Unit 1 2 The default is 1 Specifies which unit GPIB Type Virtual Devices EQ11 Specifies IEQ11 GPIB IEEE 488 TNS 9914A controller AT GPIB TNT IE
37. COM 3 509 or 3C900B network card to provide DEQNA emulation The 3COM 3C509 card must be configured using 3COM s DOS based 3C5X9CFG EXE program to have the Plug n Play feature disabled and the I O base and interrupt manually programmed into the card This is identical to the card setup requirements of the Osprey DOS system The 3COM 3C900B network card does not require configuring Note that the Osprey NT 3C509 driver also requires access to a card identification port which may be any available I O port numbered 1x0 hexadecimal where x represents any hexadecimal digit The default card identification port is 110 hexadecimal If you have one or more other 3C509 cards in the system that are being used by the standard NT network driver this driver will have already reserved I O port 110 for its exclusive use In this case the Osprey NT 3C509 driver will attempt to use a valid alternate port 140 130 or 120 hexadecimal for this purpose If none of these alternate ports is available the Osprey NT 3C509 driver will not load To work around this you can force the driver to use any other valid 1x0 hexadecimal address for the card identification port by creating a DWORD registry value named IDPORT under the HKEY LOCAL _MACHINE System CurrentControlSet Services Osp3C509 Parameters registry key and giving it the required port address January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 10 Installation The Osprey NT 3C900B driver will not access a 3C9
38. CRMODE A When the machine locks up reboot and examine SCRMODE LOG The file will look something like this Mode 0x00 Rows 25 Columns 40 Text B800 0000 Mode 1 0x01 Rows 25 Columns 40 Text B800 0000 Mode 2 0x02 Rows 25 Columns 80 Text B800 0000 Notice that mode 2 is the last mode that got logged That means that the next mode mode 3 must have locked up the machine Now start again with the N mode switch for this mode You would type SCRMODE A N 3 If SCRMODE locks up again look at the file and add the next mode that locks up the machine Mode 0x00 Rows 25 Columns 40 Text B800 0000 Mode 1 0x01 Rows 25 Columns 40 Text B800 0000 Mode 2 0x02 Rows 25 Columns 80 Text B800 0000 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 125 SCRMODE Mode 4 0x04 Rows 25 Columns 40 Graphics Mode 5 0x05 Rows 25 Columns 40 Graphics Mode 6 0x06 Rows 25 Columns 80 Graphics Here you would type SCRMODE A N 3 N 7 Keep going until you have all the N modes which lock up your machine Then re run SCRMODE without the A but with all the N modes Using New Video Modes To specify which video modes should be used for the VT100 emulation modify these two lines in the VT100 CNF file 80ColumnMode 0x03 132ColumnMode 0x55 Complete List of Modes SCRMODE can also be used to determine what all the video modes do If you start SCRMODE with A it creates a more detailed log file Mode 0 0x00 Rows 25 Columns 40 Tex
39. CSR is the Adr Cluster Name MYFILE IMG FWV11 Drive RX01 Deinterleave ON OFFj The default is ON for units 0 and 1 OFF for other units Creates non interleaved physical media Drive RX01 RX02 RX04 ST506 ST406 ST412 ST419 ST1100 RO204 This is required Specifies the drive type Unit 0 3 Specifies the unit number MSCP Specifies an MSCP controller Cluster Name MYFILE DUO MSCP Cntrl RQDX1 Unit 2 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 172150 Vct 200 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Cntrl RQDX3 RQDX1 RQDX2 RQDZI HSC50 UDAS50 RC25 VMS UDAS50 RUX50 The default is RODX3 Specifies the controller to determine the class and model Copies 1 255 The default is no replacement control tables RCT Number of copies ofthe RCT The size of each RCT must be specified with the RCTSize parameter Delay 0 1000j The default is 0 See the discussion of Delay on page 43 Drive RD54 RD51 RD52 RD53 RX50 RX33 RZL23 RZL24 RZ24 RA60 The default is RD54 Specifies the drive to determine the type class and model January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 51 Configuration Logging On Offj Strobe Data internal option The default is Off Controls data logging RBNs 1 255 The default is no replacement blocks Number of replacement blocks per track Purely informational The size of each RCT must be specified with the RCTSize parameter RCTSize 1
40. Crystal Performance 0 2 11 03 0 6 11 04 0 5 11 05 0 5 11 10 0 7 11 15 0 7 11 20 1 5 11 23 1 5 11 24 0 7 11 34 1 5 11 34c 0 8 11 35 0 8 11 40 5 3 11 44 8 5 11 45 3 8 11 53 8 5 11 55 5 6 11 60 7 5 11 70 5 3 11 73 9 0 11 83 9 0 11 93 9 0 11 94 0 5 LSI 11 A File name The default is OSPREY 11 See page 1 See page 28 for another way to set the JI1File A number The default is 2 A File name The default is none Osprey User s Manual Page 34 hour 00 23 j is day of year 001 366 m is month 01 12 M is minute 00 59 S 1s second 00 59 y 15 year 00 99 and Y is the four digit year LogFile OSPREY LOG LogLimit Strobe Data internal command Specifies the log file limit in bytes LogFile OSPREY LOG MaxWHOALoops D Specifies the number of times that the will be allowed to accesses the I O page before checking for timer host and other services MemorySize Specifies the total memory supported MemorySize 2MB MemorySize 1 5MB NumLockKey P Snecifies the key to swap with NumLock This is used with the key mapping feature in the terminal emulators See page 119 for VT100 configuration details NumLockKey F12 NDThis has been replaced by the NumLock command in VT100 CNF see page 119 ParityCheck Allows the parity circuits to be disabled This is normally used only on an aged product where the parity circuit
41. Devices 46 Character Options 50 charpipe 68 CldFile 36 37 clear to send 51 CLOCK 81 Physical Devices 81 Virtual Devices 81 Clock Devices 47 Cluster 52 CMOS setup 21 color 136 Color 134 COM 68 Command line 33 CON 70 Configuration calendar devices 46 character devices 46 clock devices 47 CPU devices 47 disks 46 DOS devices 47 48 88 89 90 91 GPIB devices 47 net devices 47 ODT devices 47 PROM devices 47 tape devices 47 Configuration file 33 Console switch 71 CONSOLE 46 75 Osprey User s Manual Page 146 Index EEPFile 37 interleaved 63 Container file EEPROM 37 82 83 85 Internet 12 13 builder 121 EMS 53 Interrupt 38 CONTAINR 15 16 121 122 EnableBusResetMenu 37 IOAddress 38 123 environment variables 33 122 IOTFile 38 customer data 15 Example table 16 Core dump 113 configuration file 35 Physical Devices 82 Jl 1File 40 CSII 75 76 FCC 9 File 54 FIXWATCH FIXSTAT 22 data set ready 5 FlatPROM 47 97 KBI1 C 47 82 DC power level 36 Floppy 55 KDJ 11 84 86 DECnet 93 94 font 11 KDJ11 E 29 32 35 42 45 47 delay Foreground 136 82 84 85 86 87 character 50 77 FSETUP 21 KESTREL X86 45 DEQNA 95 FTESTPC 22 KEYNAME 131 disk 49 59 13 KW11P 47 81 MSCP 60 FWI11 46 58 KWII P i 81 DEQNA 12 13 47 93 94 95 FWAFile 37 KWVII C 82 Device Configuration 46 FWV11 46 58 KWV11 CAL 46 81 DHII 46 76 DHVII 46 77 diagnostic hard disk 22 GCACycles 3 line frequency 83 General Spec
42. EXE ANS DAT OSPREY PSM OSDIAG PSM is shown here ASSEMBLER LL PDPXASM Brief ad for the Osprey Set environment variables Assembler Linker Binary editor with disassembly Disassembler PDP PSM Serial line console interface to PDP Used by PDPLOAD Used by PDPLOAD Help files Questionnaire files Source for OSPR EY J11 Source for OSDIAG J11 Osprey User s Manual Page 133 DISKCOPY PSM DEQNAROM PSM TESTDISK PSM XHBOOT PSM TM11COPY PSM Source Source Source Source Source INC Jas Library include files LIB Library source files for for for for for ASSEMBLER DISKCOPY PDP DEQNAROM PDP TESTDISK DUO XHBOOT ROM TM11COPY PDP To modify the default OSPREY J11 follow these steps 1 Edit the source file C PDPXASM OSPREY OSPRI EY PSM 2 Assemble the file pasm osprey 3 Link the file plink osprey 4 Include the new version in your configuration file JllFile C PDPXASM OSPR EY OSPREY PDP Strobe Data is not responsible for the accuracy of the source files provided nor any changes No warranty is made for the usefulness reliability or safety of the programs provided or generated January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 134 ASSEMBLER January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 135 Appendix A APPENDIX A LSRMST definition LSRMST Line Status Modem Status codes are used in CharPipe se
43. EY environment variable or in the PATH The Osprey searches for its files in that order January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 1 Manual Information January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 2 Product Overview PRODUCT OVERVIEW The Osprey Co Processor is a PC add in card which allows any standard ISA EISA or PCI based PC to replace a Digital Equipment Corporation 16 bit PDP minicomputer The system uses PC hardware devices to replace corresponding minicomputer peripherals in a manner transparent to the PDP software Thus PDP operating systems and applications run without modification on the Osprey PC platform Most PDP instructions are executed directly out of local memory by the Osprey s CPU Traditional PDP hardware floating point is available through the use of either an optional onboard FPJ11 processor or through the standard microcode CP I O instructions are handled by a local 80X86 microprocessor This processor serves as the interface between the host PC software and the Osprey CPU On the Osprey side it provides the low level register status and interrupt functions which the PDP software expects for each device On the host side it provides a high level interface for the routing of I O requests to the appropriate host device Not every PDP device has a counterpart in the PC environment Also some devices used in data collection and process control are not well suited to device emulation The Ospr
44. EY environment variable or in the PATH The Osprey searches for all files in that order The VT240 CNF if used must be renamed to VT100 CNF before the Osprey will use it You should preserve the original VT100 CNF in case the VT240 CNF does not fit your needs Note that the VT240 CNF simply changes the behavior of the keyboard It does not add extra VT240 emulation Blank lines and comments in the configuration file are ignored A comment is defined as anything which follows a semicolon Upper case and lower case are treated equally except when contained within quotation marks Tabs and spaces are treated equally except when contained within quotation marks At least one space or tab must separate each option or specifier from other options and specifiers Each line in the configuration file contains a single definition All codes are octal unless otherwise specified However the codes may also be given in hexadecimal or decimal Hexadecimal codes must be preceded by Ox 0x41 and decimal codes must be followed by 65 Octal codes may also be preceded by 0 0101 in case a code does not default to octal Several helper files may be copied and pasted into VT100 CNF for certain applications Some applications require keyboard parity or only upper case In those cases insert one of the following files into your VT100 CNF or add the line Include vTUCASE CNF File Usage VTUCASE CNF Upper case letters VTPARE CNF Mixed
45. File Exchange SFX program Directions for that utility are included in the installation package Do not use SFX on a container file that is currently being used by an Osprey If you do you may corrupt or lose all your data It is safe to use the DOSLink programs from the Osprey Utility name FTP address DOSLINK RSX ftp ftp strobedata com pub osprey rsxcopy exe DOSLINK RSTS ftp ftp strobedata com pub osprey rstscopy exe DOSLINK RT 11 ftp ftp strobedata com pub osprey rtl lcopy exe Strobe File Exchange ftp ftp strobedata com pub osprey The actual filename has a version number appended to it Look for sFXnnn EXE January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 131 ASSEMBLER Cross Assembler The cross assembler assembles and links DOS files into programs which will execute on a PDP 11 or Osprey The DOS files are assembly language files The cross assembler is very closely related to the MACRO 11 assembler though it is not 100 compatible You may download PDPXASM EXE from the ftp site at any time The program will install the Strobe Cross Assembler along with several other tools and utilities The default directory structure c EY TXT RS BAT machine IOIDIOIOOO L SAMPIL OSPREY January 17 2003 ESTION ESTION ESTION ESTION LI PDP D DPLOAD DOC UESTION UESTION U U U U koe LST QUE
46. H 50 Narrow menu DRIVE RD 54 COMMENT 160mb drive MBYTES 160 Boot drive DRIVE RX50 COMMENT Floppy image KBYTES 400 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 108 Container File Builder Help Screen 2 A help screen is displayed from the command line switch H e g CONTAINR H This prog Osprey If line an in To specify 1 Use D 2 Use B 3 Use H Argument file B bytes C cnfile D drive E erase heads kbytes blocks mbytes sectors tracks Dest The CNF fi 1 A commen end of t 2 Blank li 3 Upper ca 4 specifie 5 All opti 6 Each opt 7 Space c equally 8 Valid op Option BYTES BLOCKS KBYTES MBYTES January 17 2003 Containr Rev 1 02 General form Containr args destination ram will build a container file for use with the the file is not fully specified on the command teractive menu will finish the build process the drive on the command line us method name as found in the CNF file K L or M to specify the total size S and T to specify the drive parameters on Meaning Insert the file into the command line Number of bytes in the file se this for the config file rive ES umbe umbe umbe umbe CONTAINR CNF name as specified in CNF file NO to erase contents of container file of heads to use of Kbytes in the file of 512 byte blocks in the file of Mbytes in the file Number of sectors to
47. LSRMST escape code is a single command byte and possibly one or more data bytes If the customer sends an escape code followed by an unknown command byte CharPipe will discard the LSRMST escape code and transmit the unknown command byte to the attached virtual device In the following descriptions 0x is used to represent the LSRMST escape byte value above Command byte Meaning 0x00 Escape An LSRMST escape code should be inserted into the data stream 0x01 Data and status Written to the customer end of the named pipe the first following data character contains the line status register and the second data character contains the received data byte associated with the line status This sequence will never be read at the customer end of the named pipe 0x02 Status only Written to the customer end of the named pipe the data character contains the line status register Read at the customer end of the named pipe the data character contains the line control register January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 137 Appendix A 0x03 Modem status Written to the customer end of the named pipe the data character contains the modem status register Read at the customer end of the named pipe the data character contains the modem control register 0x05 Baud rate Read at the customer end of the named pipe the first data character contains the least significant byte of the baud rate divisor and the second data character contains the most signi
48. Note that RxBuff 1 see below will probably also be necessary Port 1 4 099 Port 1 256 P This is required Specifies which serial port NDAny number of multiplexors including Strobe Multiplexor Digiboard and standard COM ports may provide COM ports under NT RIPolling On Off The default is On Since the standard PC COM hardware does not provide Ring Indicator RI signals compatible with the virtual character devices RI polling is normally turned on The DigiBoard driver correctly supports RI so RIPolling Off can be specified on those COM lines to lighten the host CPU burden RxBuff 1 1000 D The default is 16 Specifies the buffer between the NT COM driver and our code This should be set to 1 if using Overrun On Timeout 0 1000 P The default is 0 Specifies the number of milliseconds to wait after receiving a character from the COM port before a signal is sent A system with a large number of serial lines and high traffic may need this set to 5 or 10 in order to block the characters and reduce the burden on the host CPU TxBuff 11 1000 The default is 16 Specifies the buffer between the NT COM driver and our code See page 131 for information on TXBuff and CPU loading January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 60 Configuration Specifies the PC keyboard and screen Con Unit 1 Console Input Modem Options page 45 are allowed 8Bit On Off The default is Off Enables 8 bi
49. OSPREY CHK page 21 for details on how to run the diagnostics If HWDIAG fails with memory tests and you have a Unibus machine you may have installed the wrong Unibus software See page 7 for information about determining your board type System verification Once the hardware and software have been installed click Start Programs Osprey Diagnose Hardware low level This will run the HWDIAG diagnostic Once HWDIAG passes click Start Programs Osprey Diagnose system high level The Osprey will give you several options See the section on OSPREY CHK page 21 for details on how to run the diagnostics PC Hardware installation Standard disk drives monitors keyboards COM ports parallel ports and networks are used by the Osprey system January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 11 Installation PO9 For most devices you must not load the device drivers in to your CONFIG SYS or AUTOEXEC BAT The Osprey program uses its own drivers and will conflict with most manufacturers drivers ASPI Installation 99 The ASPITAPE option page 84 requires a SCSI controller with ASPLSYS installed and connected to a Digital TZ30 tape drive ASPI Installation The ASPITAPE option page 84 and the ASPIDISK option page 84 require a SCSI controller The ASPI device can be used whether or not there is an NT driver installed To specify the SCSI device unit and controller the Unit lt SCSI Unit ID gt and A
50. Osprey User s Manual Strobe Data Inc January 17 2003 Redmond WA USA TABLE OF CONTENTS Manual Informations oe efie ERIS 1 3 MVS Cea ALLO Tye note thereat rea aa ote 7 PC Software Utilities seti coste eta hotte tbe Pv td ates 17 LAUD o eue dede eai e Ta ASIAN AR iN ert uie tein a 21 OSPREY CHK Diagnostic ha ee cea us 25 ous Stein tetro tatc ie ERU aa eds ev tuts 27 Osprey Control Menu D ettet 92 Osprey Control Metu 9 eo cen dt odi oi det medi vie 99 Stobe ODIT usen santet p HU E Hs t ids 103 Co ntamer File esee 107 Faletape dates ett spa ho i ee rete a t 113 ISBY NAME entente v MM SING 117 VT100 Configuration Files sci RS Eger tnt eee 119 Screen Modes as osea dat putet 125 GETDISE 205 a etait ec ae ea Gand deque atte EN 129 DOSLink and Strobe File Exchange sss 131 Cross Assembler oeste o aei P 131 Appendix A ESRMS T i ce dA tt oa aie t e SR Rd Ass 131 January 17 2003 Appendix B Host CPU Loading January 17 2003 January 17 2003 Manual Information MANUAL INFORMATION Examples in the middle of the text Like this will be set off in special type This document applies to the all versions of the Osprey coprocessor and the tw
51. Osprey software insert the diskette and run the installation program DOS A UNSTALL The program will prompt for a drive and directory name Just hit ENTER to accept the default shown inside square brackets To install the software using default drive and directory name CAOSPREY just run ANINSTALL D During installation you will be asked which Osprey model you have There are four different models the new Unibus model the old Unibus model the Qbus model and the single board Osprey with no bus connections If you answer the question incorrectly wait until the rest of the installation finishes and run the WHICHBIN program see page 14 to re configure Software installation Insert disk 1 and use any one of the standard NT installation methods 1 Choose Start Run V a setup exe 2 Choose Add Remove Programs from the control panel 3 Click My Computer and then the 3 floppy Run setup exe January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 9 Installation The Osprey NT software is also available from the Internet at http www strobedata com in the Osprey support section The setup program will guide you through the installation process You will need to know the following information What type of Osprey board you are using Osprey DCJ11 Osprey ISA or What type of I O adapter you are using Qbus Unibus New Unibus or None The I O address of the board Hex 320 is the default 0 5 The int
52. Osprey version it reports on E g Start the program then touch Enter followed by F1 and then the 0 Ins key on the keypad imikeyname o Compatible with Osprey Version 4 23 15 Please press a key That key is 0x000D or CTRLM That key is 0x013B or F1 That key is 0x0252 or KPDZERO January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 118 VT100 CNF VT100 CNF Certain strings may contain characters that are not allowed in our normal Osprey configuration file like the semicolon You must enclose the entire string in quotation marks if it contains a semicolon or quotation mark It is not necessary to use a quoted string for J11File and related lines see page 1 Please see the details of quoted strings on page 29 Note If you feel that the VT100 emulation is not working when you use function keys or arrows please add RxDelay 1000 TxDelay 1000 on page 43 to your Con line Many operating systems can not handle extremely high baud rate VT100 devices as our Con is If the console becomes unusable because an application has sent peculiar escape codes for example the screen can be reset Click the upper left corner system control of the window and selecting Reset Press Alt R to reset the screen The VT100 configuration file VT100 CNF is an ASCII file defining what VT100 codes are sent for PC keys and other characteristics of the VT100 emulator The file must reside in the current directory or a directory listed in the OSPR
53. PT access uses the BIOS printer drivers so that utilities which reroute the LPTn files in DOS will affect the LPTn files as well E g Novell CAPTURE LPT Port 1 LPV11 Input Modem Options page 45 are allowed Connect Yes No The default is Yes Specifies whether the printer is initially connected IgnoreSelect Yes No 099 The default is No Specifies whether the printer must raise the select line and the ready line or just the ready line when it is able to receive another character Mode Create Truncate New Append Extend Write Overwrite The default is Create Specifies the method used to open and verify the Port or Name Create Create file truncate if exists Truncate Truncate file must exist New Create file must not exist Append Create file append if exists Extend Extend file must exist Write Write to file must exist Overwrite Create file overwrite if exists January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 63 Configuration Name filename Either Name or Port is required with Connect Yes Specifies the file or device name that will receive the data See page 29 for details about filenames with spaces If your filename is a printer UNC name NT will not print any data until it knows the print job is complete Since the Osprey can not tell when individual operating system jobs might complete it can not tell NT that the job is complete until either the Osprey is shut down or the use
54. Q11 Unit 0 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 164100 Vct 270 Pri 4 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr plus 10 Unit 0 1 Specifies the line number EU11 Specifies IEU11 GPIB IEEE 488 TNS 9914A controller AT GPIB TNT IEU11 Unit 0 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 164100 Vct 270 Pri 4 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr plus 10 Unit 0 1 Specifies the line number NET Type Physical Devices 509 Specifies a 3COM 3C509 network card NA509 DEQNA Address address The default is the actual card address A six byte hex string which represents the PROM address of the card as reported to the CPU The string must be in the format XX XX XX XX XX XX or XXXXXXXXXXXX DECnet Yes No The default is No DECnet receive frame filtering option Suppresses passing of frames with source addresses that do not begin with AA 00 Filtering spares DECnet of having to do it when it is running on an ethernet LAN with other non DECnet systems that use broadcasts DECnet Yes will cause DECnet to fail if it expects to receive frames from source addresses that do not begin with AA 00 ForceXsum Yes No January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 80 Configuration The default is No Forces valid length and checksum fields into the ROM image The default assumes the ROM image already has valid fields or does not require them ToAddress address 209 This is required i
55. ReadCache Off EditCommand Specifies the program used to edit the configuration file EditCommand Wordpad s EEPFile Specifies the data file that contains the EEPROM image from the CPU board This file is used only if CPU January 17 2003 Configuration The default is 1307 The default is 4008 The number of microseconds to wait before forcing I O timeout The time is rounded up to the next highest valid time The valid times are 13 26 32 491 0 10 or 10 20 40 801059 or 10 255 0 0 The default is 0 The number of kb of XMS to use for internal disk caching The upper limit is approximately 3600 The cache is disabled by using 0 A file name The default is OSPREY CLD See page 1 On Off The default is On If On DMA transfers have a higher maximum and lower average DMA latency If Off DMA transfers have a lower maximum and higher average latency A program 9696s u u The default is NOTEPAD 5 The s 15 replaced by the configuration file The first if given will be replaced by the line number The second u if given will be replaced by the character number A File name The default is OSPREY EEP See page 1 Osprey User s Manual Page 31 EEPROM size is present EEPFile OSPREY EEP EnableBusResetMenu 099 Allows Alt U to display the bus reset menu Used only if Qob
56. Specifies the microcode file UCOFile OSPREY UCO To emulate the 11 23 you must use the following lines UCOFile 1123 UCO IOTFile 1123 IOT To emulate the 11 44 you must use the following lines UCOFile 1144 UCO IOTFile 1144 IOT UMRAddress Specifies the PC I O base that is set in the switch block on the Osprey unibus adapter UMRAddress 720 January 17 2003 text E Configuration The default is ODT 173000 causes the to begin execution at the beginning of the PROMFile page 36 addr must be an octal address that is an exact multiple of 1000 The default is Osprey NT followed by the board number and the name of the configuration file 0 1000000 The default is 0 A file name The default is OSPREY UCO See page 1 100 FF0 The default is based on the IoAddress see page 33 IoAddress Default 1xx 5xx 2xx 6xx 3xx 7 5xx 1 6xx 2xx 7 3xx Oxx Dxx AXX Exx Bxx Fxx Dxx 9xx Exx AXX Osprey User s Manual Page 38 UMRFile Strobe Data internal command Specifies the downloadable Xilinx fuse file to load on the Osprey Unibus adapter UMRFile OSPREY UMR Unibus Specifies an I O address range that will use the Unibus For machines with the Osprey Unibus adapter connected to Unibus devices which use the Unibus map you must also include _KDJ11 E UnibusMap On in your configuration file
57. Specifies the number of bytes per sector Tracks 1 255 The default is specified by Type Overrides the number of tracks Unit 0 255 The default is 0 Specifies the unit number WriteProtect On Off The default is Off Controls write protect Character Options TXDelay microseconds Specifies the minimum amount of time to delay between transmitting characters The decimal number of microseconds must be between 0 and 1 000 000 inclusive The delay January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 43 Configuration will be rounded up to the next highest 250 microseconds The effective baud rate can be estimated by calculating 10 000 000 TXDelay Or if you want to know what TXDelay to use divide 1 000 000 by your desired baud rate and multiply by the number of bits per character See page 131 for information on TXDelay and CPU loading TXDelay Effective baud rate No parity 8 data bits 1 stop bit 1042 9600 2083 4800 4167 2400 8333 1200 RXDelay microseconds Specifies the minimum amount of time to delay between receiving characters The decimal number of microseconds must be between 0 and 1 000 000 inclusive The delay will be rounded up to the next highest 250 microseconds See the table above for approximate baud rates TXBuff bytes stop start Bytes specifies the size of the transmit buffer The decimal number must be between 2 and 1024 inclusive See page 131 for information on TXBuff and CPU loading
58. TXBuff 16 15 8 Stop specifies the number of bytes in the transmit buffer that are allowed before the transmitter will become off line The decimal number must be greater than or equal to 1 and less than the number of bytes in the buffer The default is 15 16 of bytes Start forces the transmitter on line whenever the number of bytes in the buffer is less than this value The decimal number must be greater than or equal to 0 and less than stop The default is half of bytes RXBuff bytes stop start Bytes specifies the size of the receive buffer The decimal number must be between 2 and 1024 inclusive RXBuff 16 15 8 Stop specifies the number of bytes that are allowed in the receive buffer before the receiver will become off line The decimal number must be greater than or equal to 1 and less than the number of bytes in the buffer The default is 15 16 of bytes Start forces the receiver on line whenever the number of bytes in the buffer is less than this value The decimal number must be greater than or equal to 0 and less than stop The default is half of bytes Mode baud parity bits stop Specifies the initial line conditions The default is 9600 N 8 2 Mode 9600 N 8 2 Baud must be 110 150 300 600 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 38400 Parity must be NEO 1 0 Bits must be 5 8 Stop must be 1 2 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 44 Configuration Output Modem Options RTS On Off Specifies the
59. YFILE IMG RX11 Drive RX01 Drive Options page 43 are allowed The default is Adr 177170 Vct 264 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Deinterleave ON OFF The default is ON for units 0 and 1 OFF for other units Creates non interleaved physical media Drive RX01 RX03 RX04 ST506 ST406 ST412 ST419 ST1100 RO204 This is required Specifies the drive type Unit 0 1 Specifies the unit number RX2II Specifies the RX211 double density disk January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 55 Configuration Cluster Name MYFILE IMG RX211 Drive RXO1 Drive Options page 43 are allowed The default is Adr 177170 Vct 264 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Deinterleave ON OFFj The default is ON for units 0 and 1 OFF for other units Creates non interleaved physical media Drive RX01 RX02 RX03 RX04 ST506 ST406 ST412 ST419 ST1100 RO204 This is required Specifies the drive type Unit 0 1 Specifies the unit number RXVII Specifies the RXV11 double density disk Cluster Name MYFILE IMG RXV11 Drive RX01 Drive Options page 43 are allowed The default is Adr 177170 Vct 264 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Deinterleave ON OFFj The default is ON for units 0 and 1 OFF for other units Creates non interleaved physical media Drive RX01 RX02 RX03 RX04 ST506 ST406 ST412 ST419 ST1100 RO204 This is required Specifies the drive type Unit 0 1 Specifies the unit number
60. a convenient way to dump data from one system and move it to another system since DOS files are so easily portable in a number of different ways Filetape Control Menu The filetape menu is available from the toolbar under Devices Filetape Control Menu 9 The filetape control menu can be activated while the Osprey is executing by striking Alt F The Osprey is suspended at that point and the filetape control menu is displayed A reverse video bar shows the current option Select a new option by using the arrow keys to move the bar or typing the option number then striking the return key 0 Continue 1 Close File 2 Rewind Tape 3 Open New File 4 Toggle Write Protect In addition to the filetape control menu some other information is displayed Tape Filename a filename Current Object the object number 0 indicates fully rewound User Protect On Off File Protect On Off Status Message the last status message Option 0 Continue Resume the Osprey at the exact point that the inner control menu was invoked Option 1 Close File This is the same as dismounting a physical tape The files may be copied or deleted after the files are closed January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 113 Filetape Option 2 Rewind Tape The current filetape object number is reset to the beginning of the tape Option 3 Open NewFile This is the same as mounting a new physical tape The new files are res
61. ample will end up with the PC F12 key toggling the NumLock light and the PC NumLock key behaving as the VT100 PF1 key OSPREY CNF NumLockKey F12 Use F12 as the NumLock key and NumLock as the F12 key VT100 CNF Key F12 0 1 Ox4F 0x50 Use F12 for PF1 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 121 VT100 CNF bPO9 Color and Attributes The attributes either VT100 or PC are just lists of words separated by spaces You may also separate the words with either or amp if you feel that would make the configuration file easier to understand e g Color Underscore Blink Green POS VT100 Attributes These four VT100 attributes may be combined into a total of sixteen different attribute possibilities Preferred name Synonyms Highlight Intense H Underscore Underline U Reverse ReverseVideo Blink Blinking B POSPC Attributes The PC attributes are given as a foreground color and a background color This may be done in one of three ways 1 Just type a color or combination of colors This will set the foreground color 2 Type the foreground color s then ow then the background colors Blue ON Red 3 Type Foreground then the foreground color s then Background followed by the background color s The Foreground and Background may be in either order Foreground Bright White Background Blue Preferred nameSynonyms Normal Bright Highlight Intense Bri Underscore Underline Reverse Blink Blin
62. arching The search will search the range beginning with the low address register and ending with the high address register Each location is ANDed with the mask register If this result is the same as the word register the location is displayed The N displays the values that are different than the word register Without StrobeODT If you do not have StrobeODT in your configuration file the standard ODT is still available You may enter either ODT from the inner control menu page 99 or with Alt B When you enter the standard ODT with either the control menu or Alt B the J 11 is halted Entering the ODT is just like pressing the Halt button on the original PDP 11 front panel Type Alt G from the keyboard before trying to continue execution Alt G is the same as releasing the Halt button on the PDP 11 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 105 StrobeODT January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 106 Container File Builder CONTAINER FILE BUILDER Starting CONTAINR POSCONTATNR is usually started without anything on the command line CONTAINR will ask for the container filename and then display a list of drives which will fit into the container file Drives specified in the configuration file that exceed the capacity of the DOS drive will be flagged in the menu The container file builder can not build a single container file larger than 4 294 967 295 bytes 4GB 1 byte ND The container file builder
63. aution in their selection of PC hosts for Strobe s line of Co processors Strobe suggests the use of only top line PC s those marketed specifically for use as file servers for instance For the full description please email support strobedata com PC considerations The host PC for Windows NT should be at a minimum a 120Mhz Pentium with 32MB of memory and a 512MB hard drive A high performance PCI video card with a good monitor is highly recommended required really On such a system the performance will be nearly identical to the DOS based Osprey running on the same platform If additional applications will be running concurrently with the Osprey then a minimum ofa 200Mhz Pentium with 64MB of memory and a 1GB hard drive is recommended Monitor considerations The software uses dynamic font sizing to find the best fit for a given window size As you size the window you will see the screen font adjust At a minimum the screen resolution should be 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768 is better At 800 x 600 each character has only seven pixels in 80 column mode and five pixels in 132 column mode A five pixel character is nearly unreadable At 800 x 600 a 100 line screen see page 61 also has only five pixels per character Software installation Osprey software is delivered on 3 2 diskettes The software requires about 5mb of disk space to install Software installation Osprey DOS requires about 400kb of free conventional memory to run To install the
64. byte blocks to be used This may be used to limit the container file UnitName string Specifies the logical device name used for user clarification WriteProtect On Off January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 46 NT Configuration The default is Off Controls write protect EMS POS Sbecifies EMS memory for use as a RAM disk EMS memory is typically provided by EMM386 NDA synonym for Mem provided to maintain compatibility with DOS configuration files EMS Name C IMAGES UTILDISK DUO MSCP Unit 2 Mount Yes No The default is Yes Controls whether the disk is mounted during startup Name filename Specifies a container file used to initialize the RAM disk Also if WriteBack On is present the RAM disk will be written back to this file when the system shuts down See page 29 for details about filenames with spaces RX50 On Off The default is Off Enables RX50 style sector numbers Size blocks The default is all available memory or the size of Name if specified Specifies the maximum number of 512 byte blocks to be used UnitName string Specifies the logical device name used for user clarification WriteBack On Off The default is Off If Name filename is present turning WriteBack on will write the contents of the RAM disk to the file when the Osprey shuts down WriteProtect On Off The default is Off Controls write protect File Specifies a DOS file for use
65. changed Option 3 Test disk This test is destructive and will destroy all data contained on the disk it is testing The test will not run on disks without the signature See option 5 to add a signature to a disk This test will run indefinitely unless you press a key or shut down the Osprey If you press a key the test may wait several seconds until it finishes an operation The disk test may be configured to run with container files DOS files or original hardware The example cnf file defines a single MSCP disk on unit 0 type RD54 If you haven t added any disks yet option 4 then you will be prompted for disk parameters See option 4 for a description of the questions and answers Option 4 New disk For each question you may type as below to see a list of options Add disk controller and units Enter device class 1 MSCP 4 RX11 RX211 7 FWDx106 2 RH11 RH70 5 RK611 RK711 8 DOS file 3 RL11 RLV12 6 RK11 Enter device class i125 Th SCP Enter Unit class cQ men 2 1 RA RC RD RX33 RX50 4 RX01 04 7 FW drives 2 RM RP RS 5 RK06 RK07 8 DOS file 3 RLO1 RLO2 6 RK05 Enter unit Class vient anid i RA RC RD RX33 RX50 Enter vector address 000154 Enter device address 172150 Enter disk to be tested 0 O RD54 Tu alee 2 05 2 992 Enter urit nu umbef i 04209 0 Option 5 Write signature This optio
66. control menu AltKeyMode LeftShift BinFile Strobe Data internal command Specifies the downloadable Xilinx fuse file BinFile OSPREY BIN BoardName Specifies the name of the Osprey service for the board BusPowerCheck Specifies whether or not the I O bus AC and DC power levels are checked BusTimeout Changes the I O bus timeout BusTimeout 13 January 17 2003 LeftShift RightShift LeftCtrl RightCtrl The default is no extra keys required You may specify any number of the keys You may not specify both LeftShift and RightShift because keyboards do not transmit the Alt C when both shift keys are held down The same restriction applies to LeftCtrl and RightCtrl A file name The default is OSPREY BIN See page 1 An Osprey service name The default is Osprey0 Yes No The default is Yes If No does not check the external bus AC and DC power levels 10 80055 10 255 05 Osprey User s Manual Page 30 CacheSize Changes the size of the internal XMS disk cache CacheSize 1024 CldFile Strobe Data internal command Specifies the data file that contains the cache load file CLDFile OSPREY CLD DMAReadCache Specifies whether Qbus Unibus DMA memory reads use a read ahead cache Some hardware devices have a very low DMA latency threshold If any such device is on the bus this configuration file line may be necessary DMA
67. crystal rate shown If the number is 36 0 Mhz use 36 and not 36 000 000 The answer is the time quantum The time quantum should be between 200 and 300 Find the effective TxDelay n a Multiply the time quantum by 1 2 3 etc until the product is equal to or larger than the TxDelay n found in the configuration file The product is the effective TxDelay n Find the number of character bits Examine Mode baud parity data bits stop bits Add 1 to the number of data bits Add the number of stop bits Add 1 if the parity isn t None The answer is the number of character bits If Mode is missing you will need to examine the Port properties in the Windows Control Panel Find the length of one character time a Divide 1 000 000 by the baud rate and multiply by the number of character bits Find the low CPU load TxDe1ay n a Multiply the time quantum by 1 2 3 etc until the product is larger than the length of one character time Subtract one time quantum from the product Subtract two from the difference The new answer is the low CPU load Txpe1ay n If the calculated effective TxDelay n is longer then the low CPU load TxDelay n the host CPU will be loaded more heavily To reduce CPU loading use the low CPU load TxDelay n Examples COM Port 1 CONSOLE TxDelay 1042 Mode 9600 E 8 2 An Osprey QXP rev 4 running the default speed has an X86 crystal of 36Mhz Dividing 8192 by 36 give 227 6 as the time Quantum
68. d by a letter will insert date or time information d day 01 31 H is hour 00 23 j is day of year 001 366 m is month 01 12 M is minute 00 59 S is second 00 59 y is year 00 99 and Y is the four digit year Unit 0 9099 0 990 The default is 0 Specifies which logical console is used For consoles numbered 0 9 Alt n switches to console Unit n UnitName string Specifies the logical device name used for user clarification Width 80 132 The default is 80 Specifies the initial width of the console NT DIGI 099 Specifies a Digiboard C X or Digiboard Xem multi line serial card Note Do not install any DOS drivers for the Digiboard Replaced by COM Please see http www strobedata com html digiboard html for part numbers Digi Port 1 16 16 16 16 DLV11 Conc ports ports2 The default is 16 This is not used on the Digiboard Xem The number of ports are per concentrator in the order of their IDs Used asa replacement for CxConfig if all communication modes are OE This generates a CxConfig string of OOOE lt ports1 gt 0E lt ports2 gt 0E FF The example above shows 64 port system Only the last one of Conc and CxConfig will be used CxConfig string The default is OOOE100EFF This is not used on the Digiboard Xem A hex string up to 48 bytes long This should not be used unless the DIGI is failing and you have evidence from the technical reference manual that this s
69. dapter lt SCSIBoard gt options can only be used if the device has not been claimed by an NT class driver If the device has been claimed by an NT class driver the new Name lt Device name gt option must be used For example the option Name Tape0 might be used to specify a SCSI tape device claimed by the NT tape class driver and Name PhysicalDrivel might be used to specify a SCSI disk claimed by the disk class driver A utility program DOSDEV EXE has been provided which can be used to display all system device names by clicking Start Programs Osprey DOSDEV or using the command line DOSDEV more Note that this program displays the device names in the left column the right column shows the NT native names which give a better indication of the actual device Customer software data installation After the system has been verified with HWDIAG and EXAMPLE CNF you are ready to move the original PDP 11 software and data to the PC Each physical disk on the Digital minicomputer must have a corresponding disk emulation disk image on the PC You can choose MS DOS files on the hard disk memory areas floppy disks network files etc for your disk images See the configuration file section beginning on page 27 for a complete description Most typical disk drives can be copied using the GETDISK program See page 129 for more information If you can not use the GETDISK program you will need to use the sta
70. ddress register Used in downloading searching and filling Set the high address register Used in searching and filling Set the mask register Used in searching Set the word result register Used in searching and filling Search from the low address to the high address for the word register Search from the low address to the high address for anything which is not the word register Fill from the low address to the high address with the word register Set a data watch address to be displayed with the register set R Clear a data watch address Output Style Commands n January 17 2003 Display previous value in assembly language format Display previous value in octal format Display previous value in unsigned decimal format Display previous value in hexadecimal format Display previous value in signed decimal format Display previous value in ASCII two byte format Display all following values in assembly language format If n is specified as 1 3 up to that many octal words of the instruction are displayed before the assembly language format instruction Display all following values in octal format Display all following values in unsigned decimal format Display all following values in hexadecimal format Display all following values in signed decimal format Display all following values in ASCII two byte format Display CON Unit n The default is 0 Osprey User s Manual Page 104 StrobeODT Se
71. discussion Performance 11 70 Factor 2 PriorityClass Specifies the priority in the NT task manager PRMFile Specifies the data file that contains the PROM image from the CPU board This file is used only if ceu KDJ11 E PROM size is present PRMFile OSPREY PRM January 17 2003 Configuration 0 1000 0 10000 The default is 10 100 The first decimal number specifies the number of milliseconds to delay between characters The second decimal number if given specifies the delay after a carriage return Default Maximum 11 03 11 04 11 05 11 10 11 15 11 20 11 23 11 24 11 34 11 34c 11 35 11 40 11 44 11 45 11 53 11 55 11 60 11 70 11 73 11 83 11 84 11 93 11 94 LSI 11 Factor x The default is Default This affects the CPU speed of the Osprey You may specify Factor to adjust the base rate of the CPU Factor may not be given with Default or Maximum Idle Low Normal High RealTime The default is Normal Idle and Low are synonyms WARNING setting PriorityClass RealTime disable Windows NT task manager A file name The default is OSPREY PRM See page 1 Osprey User s Manual Page 36 The default OSPREY PRM will boot a DOS file as specified from the keyboard or from startkey page 22 Note that DosDevice page 76 must be enabled Qbus Specifies an I O address range that will use the Qbus Qbus ALL Qbus 177510 2 QuietMode DOS m
72. e used for user clarification ODT Type Virtual Devices ODT Specifies the ODT provided by the J11 StrobeODT ODT Slot 1 DTR ON OFF The default is OFF Sets the modem line status RTS ON OFF The default is OFF Sets the modem line status Slot 0 255 Specifies the slot number For devices of equal priority the device with the lower slot has priority Character Options page 43 are allowed January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 83 Configuration PROM Type Physical Devices Flat PROM Specifies a non paged prom FlatProm Name OSPREY PRM FlatPROM Name filename The default is OSPREY PRM See page 29 for details about filenames with spaces Specifies the initial contents of the PROM PROM Type Virtual Devices FlatPROM Specifies a non paged PROM To use the paged PROM see page 75 FlatPROM FlatPROM Size 1024 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 170000 Vct 000 Pri 0 Slot 0 There is no CSR Size 1 4096 The default is 1024 Specifies the size in words of the PROM TAPE Type Physical Devices ASPITape Uses the ASPI interface See page 12 for installation requirements ASPITape Adapter 0 Unit 0 TMSCP Unit 0 Adapter 0 7 The default is 0 Specifies the ASPI controller number BlockSize 0 512 1024 The default is 0 Controls the blocking mode Blocked tapes contain a header block for each record written If 0 tries to set th
73. e M8012 bootstrap and terminator card PROMWrite On Off If On enables write access to the PROM StackLimit On Off The default is Off If On enables the stack limit register at 177774 Switches value Specifies the 8 position DIP on a KDJ11 E CPU board This is not the equivalent of the toggle switches which are specified throught the swR option The octal number must be between 0 and 377 inclusive SWR value January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 75 Configuration Specifies the initial value for the front panel toggle switches The octal number must be between 0 and 177777 inclusive See page 100 for information on changing the switches at run time Adr 177570 references this value SystemID 0 177777 The default is 73551 If specified enables the system registers at 177760 177764 SystemLowerSize 0 177777 The default is 0 If specified enables the system registers at 177760 177764 SystemUpperSize 0 177777 The default is 0 If specified enables the system registers at 177760 177764 UnibusMap On Off The default is Off Enables the Unibus map registers UnibusMap On uses 62 words beginning with Adr 170200 The Unibus map is enabled with this command For machines with the Osprey Unibus adapter connected to Unibus devices you must also include Unibus in your configuration file UnibusMemoryParity On Off The default is Off If On enables the Unibus memory parity register at 172110
74. e Osprey is ready for this January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 99 Osprey Control Menu Option 5 Select new container file for disk This allows the simulation of removable disk packs Note that you may change the container file for any disk specified with File or Cluster You will be presented with another menu similar to the one shown here Unit Selection Menu Return to control menu File Name G NETDISKS SYSDISK DUO Cluster Name C DISKS DATADISK DU1 Choose Return to control menu to stop switching packs Otherwise choose the pack you wish to change You will then be prompted for the new container file name You are changing Name C NDISKSNDATADISK DUI Please type th ntire pathname of the new DOS file You may press Enter alone to abort the switch or type the new filename If you do not choose a valid new file and the original file for some reason is not available the unit will be placed off line and will not be available until you switch in a valid container file 6 Enter new value for panel switches Used to change the value of the switch register The switch register must have been enabled with the SWR option See page 75 for information about SWR F2 Show caching statistics Displays some statistics about the internal XMS cache F5 Temporarily shell to MS DOS While the Osprey is suspended you can shell to MS DOS and return to the Osprey If you push F5 do not get
75. e mode in order to variable length records then 512 byte records then 1024 byte records If none succeed generates an error If 512 or 1024 tries to set the mode to the value specified and generates an error if it fails Buffer 512 4294966784 99 The default is 64512 Specifies the tape transfer buffer size Drive Generic 730 The default is Generic Specifies the drive type January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 84 Configuration Name aspiname This is required if NT has assigned a name Specifies the NT name for the tape drive You may need to use DOSDEV to determine the correct Name See page 12 Poll 0 60 The default is 3 Specifies the interval in seconds to poll the tape drive for status changes Unit 0 15 The default is 0 Specifies the SCSI device number UnitName string Specifies the logical device name used for user clarification FileTape Uses DOS files For operational information see the filetape section on page 113 FileTape Name BKUPTAPE TMSCP Unit 1 Name filename This is required See page 29 for details about filenames with spaces Specifies the filename base No extension is allowed The two files filename TAP and filename TIX are used for the emulation MaxSize 1 10240 The default is free space on the disk Limits the size of the TAP file The decimal number represents the number of kbytes that are allowed Notify On Off The default is Off Si
76. e page 59 when the LSRMST value option is given The LSRMST protocol provides escape codes to represent actual line status e g break detected and modem status e g CTS changes This protocol has been extended to support sending line control e g select parity modem control e g set RTS and baud rate sequences from the attached virtual device to the customer end of the named pipe Without LSRMST value all virtual device line control and modem control changes are ignored and line status and modem status changes cannot be written to the customer end of the named pipe CharPipe passes data through without inspection or modification When LSRMST mode is active 1 when LSRMST value is present and value is non zero line status modem status line control modem control and baud rate commands are prefixed by the byte given in value the LSRMST escape code Following this byte is the LSRMST command sequence The bit values for line status modem status line control and modem control used by LSRMST are compatible with the 8250 16450 16550 serial line controller chips used by the PC XT and AT compatible machines In the following discussion data transmission is described from the point of view of the customer end of the named pipe Generally status changes are written to the customer end of the named pipe and control commands are read from the customer end of the named pipe LSRMST commands Following the
77. ecified will be supported If a user program tries to transfer more than the size allocated by the driver the Osprey will crash atrun time This option should be set to the maximum size the user program will actually transfer in a single DMA burst Logging On Offj The default is Off Controls the logging of DMA transfer error messages DMA General Purpose Interface Type Virtual Devices DR 11 W NPISA Specifies the DR 11W 16 bit Unibus DMA controller DCI1109 DR11W Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 172410 Vct 124 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr plus 4 CERD On Off The default is Off This option specifies special behavior required by the CERD device EIR On Off The default is Off Enables the Error Information Register This option emulates the function of E105 sw 5 on the actual device INHAO0 On Off The default is Off Enabling this option Inhibits the A00 bit in the BAR from reflecting the User READY signal This option emulates the function of E105 sw 4 on the actual device January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 77 Configuration SA NT PCI Specifies the DRV 11 16 bit Qbus DMA controller DCI1109 DRV11 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 172410 Vct 124 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr plus 4 CERD On Off The default is Off This option specifies special behavior required by the CERD device Q22 On Off
78. er RHI1 TM03 Specifies a TM03 tape on an RH11 controller ASPITape RH11 TM03 Unit 2 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 172440 Vct 224 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Drive TU77 TU45 TU16 TE16 The default is TU77 Specifies the drive to determine the type class and model Formatter 0 7 The default is 0 Specifies the formatter number Serial 0 9999 The default is 9999 Specifies the serial number Space 0 65535 The default is 10 Specifies the number of blocks per SPACE command processed before forcing the tape status back Space 0 will process the entire SPACE command Some operating systems RSX in particular have problems if slow tape drives take a long time with SPACE commands In these cases the value may need to be smaller Unit 0 7 The default is 0 Specifies the unit number WriteProtect On Off The default is Off Controls write protect RH70 TM03 Specifies a TM03 tape on an RH70 controller ASPITape RH70 TM03 Unit 2 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 172440 Vct 224 Pri 5 Slot 0 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 87 Configuration The CSR is the Adr Drive TU77 TU45 TU16 TE16 The default is TU77 Specifies the drive to determine the type class and model Formatter 0 7 The default is 0 Specifies the formatter number Serial 0 9999 The default is 9999 Specifies the se
79. er MCR follows command byte 0x03 when read at the customer end of the named pipe Bit Meaning 0x02 RTS state to set 0x01 DTR state to set Read at the customer end of the named pipe 0 0x03 MCR Baud Rate The baud rate bytes follow command byte 0x05 when read at the customer end of the named pipe The baud rate divisor can be calculated by dividing the crystal rate input to a typical COM 8250 chip by both the crystal rate and the baud rate For the CharPipe implementation the baud rate divisor is 115 200 divided by the baud rate and truncated to the nearest lower integer This divisor matches the divisor programmed into the divisor latch register of the 8250 class chips The low order eight bits LSB of the divisor are transmitted first followed by the high order eight bits MSB Divisor Bytes Baud LSB MSB 300 0x80 0x01 1200 0x60 0x00 2400 0x30 0x00 4800 0x18 0x00 9600 Ox0C 0x00 Read at the customer end of the named pipe 0 2 0x05 LSB MSB January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 139 Appendix B APPENDIX B CPU Loading The host CPU is responsible for processing all virtualized I O A small number of systems that perform a large amount of virtualized I O have a severe impact on the host CPU Ifa particular system is found to have a large impact on the host CPU there are some things that can be done to reduce that load Serial Lines and Transmit Buffers using COM Serial lines on the Osprey system are impleme
80. errupt number you will use for the board 2 5 If you need the Strobe Data StrobeMux multi line serial I O card driver If you need to access RX50 diskettes using the PC 1 2MB drive If you need the 3C509 Ethernet card driver for DEQNA emulation If you need the 3C900B Ethernet card driver for DEQNA emulation The ID port if you have multiple 3C509 Ethernet cards If you are using a Boca board multi line serial card PCHMISAYTS locate available interrupt and I O address resources run the Windows NT Diagnostics program from within the Administrative Tools program group Select the Resources tab to view a list of currently active drivers and the interrupts I O address and DMA channels used by each driver The StrobeMux driver allows access to the StrobeMux ports via the standard NT COM interface modem control functions are disabled as the StrobeMux ports do not support modem control signals You will need to know the interrupt and I O address of each StrobeMux board and to ensure that these resources are available You also need to select a starting COM port number for the serial ports on each board and to specify a 16 or 32 port board To support RX50 diskettes in the PC 1 2MB floppy drive the Osprey NT package uses a specially modified version of the standard NT floppy driver You can not use 360Kb diskettes in a 1 2Mb drive when the Osprey NT floppy driver is installed A custom driver is required if you are using a 3
81. erved for use with the Osprey system until they are closed or the Osprey is exited Option 4 Toggle Write Protect The state of the user write protect is switched between ON and OFF Note that the files might still be write protected independently of the user write protect January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 114 Filetape January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 115 Keyname KEYNAMEPO5 Keyname is used to display the names of the keys on the PC keyboard The names are used in the NumbLockKey configuration as well as the VT100 configuration Start the Keyname program from the Osprey directory Each key you touch will display its name Use Ctrl Break to terminate the program C OSPREY gt keyname Please touch a Please touch a Please touch a Please touch a eC C NOSPREY January 17 2003 key You may use 0x000D key You may use 0x013B key You may use 0x0252 key To or LO or To or To ch the En CR for tha ch the Fl F1 for tha ch the 0 KPDZERO fo ch Ctrl B E g ter key t key function key t key Ins key on the keypad r that key reak Osprey User s Manual Page 117 Keyname KEYNAME Keyname is used to display the names of the keys on the PC keyboard The names are used in the VT100 configuration Start the Keyname program by clicking Start Program Files Get Key Mappings The program will announce itself and the
82. es Controls whether the disk is mounted during startup Name filename Specifies a container file used to initialize the RAM disk Also if WriteBack On is present the RAM disk will be written back to this file when the system shuts down See page 29 for details about filenames with spaces RX50 On Off The default is Off Enables RX50 style sector numbers Size blocks The default is all available memory or the size of Name if specified Specifies the maximum number of 512 byte blocks to be used The practical limit for Size is probably between Size 400 and Size 600 UnitName string Specifies the logical device name used for user clarification WriteBack On Off The default is Off If Name filename is present turning WriteBack on will write the contents of the RAM disk to the file when the Osprey shuts down WriteProtect On Off The default is Off January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 49 Configuration Controls write protect XMS P Snecifies XMS memory for use as a RAM disk XMS memory is typically provided by HIMEM SYS NDA synonym for Mem_ provided to maintain compatibility with DOS configuration files xMS_ Name C IMAGES UTILDISK DUO MSCP Unit 2 Mount Yes No The default is Yes Controls whether the disk is mounted during startup Name filename Specifies a container file used to initialize the RAM disk Also if WriteBack On is present the RAM disk
83. es the base address of the audible bell port CRT 160000 177774 The default is 177730 Specifies the base address of the CRT controller registers TXBuff 848 32768 The default is about 25000 Specifies the size of the transmit buffer LFDetect Yes No The default is No If Yes blanks the remainder of a line when a LF character is stored in the RAM and the remainder of the screen when a FF character is stored This is a jumper option on a VRUII UnitSelect Yes Noj The default is Yes Enables the Unit Select bit If No the video RAM is always visible If Yes the video RAM is only visible when the Unit Select bitis set This is a jumper option on a VRUII RAM 160000 174000 The default is 160000 Specifies the base address of the video RAM CALENDAR Type Physical Devices CALENDAR Specifies the calendar device Calendar KWV11 CAL Filename This is required Specifies the file to use for NVRAM CALENDAR Type Virtual Devices KWVI11 CAL Specifies the calendar option of a KWV11 C Calendar KWV11 CAL Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 170400 Vct 450 Pri 4 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr CLOCK Type Physical Devices CLOCK Specifies the periodic clock January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 70 Configuration Clock KW11P CLOCK Type Virtual Devices KWII P Specifies the programmable clock Clock KW11 P Resolution 1000 Insta
84. ey card IOAddress 320 IOTFile5 7 5 Strobe Data internal command Specifies the internal I O register map file IOTFile OSPREY IOT 1Crystal This has been superceded by Performance but is still supported See page 36 for more information Specifies the J11 clock rate Some motherboards will not allow Osprey PCI cards with firmware before version 2 to run at the slowest performance settings Using this configuration line may cause a PC lockup for those machines See HWDIAG on page 1l for the firmware revision COn the PCI card virtual I O and bus I O processor speed is related to the 1 Crystal When the J11Crystal divides into 72 the I O will perform fastest When the J11Crystal is just slightly larger than a perfect divisor the I O will perform the slowest In order to maximize I O performance pick a J11Crystal that is 8 9 10 28 January 17 2003 Configuration The default is 2 A decimal number Note that this IRQ must not be in use by another PC device see page 13 100 FF0j The default is 320 A hexadecimal number excluding Oxx 4 8xx and Cxx Note that this I O range must not be in use by another PC device see page 13 See page 8 for a description of the I O switches and page 13 for a warning about ranges This value affects the default for UMRAdadress see page 38 A File name The default is OSPREY IOT See page 1 1 0 18 0 0815 0 312
85. ey board addresses this issue by allowing physical PDP devices to be supported through the use of the Osprey I O bus adapter card This card connects to the main Osprey card and provides the required QBUS or UNIBUS backplane signals in response to I O instructions executed by the Osprey s J11 processor In this configuration the Osprey hardware is initialized on startup to route specified I O instructions to the bus adapter Osprey Q Bus Osprey Co Processor i Ribbon cable Q Bus Extender eal VO Interface Detector Logic ivi Bus Transce _ Scratchpad Host PC Igterface Osprey PC Upload PDP 11 Files to Osprey PC Hard Drive s Transceivers Drivers Receiver January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 3 Product Overview The Osprey board is available in several configurations Board type Speed compared to 11 93 Bus type DCJ11 1 0 ISA SX 1 0 ISA PCI DX 2 0 ISA PCI TX 3 0 PCI QX 4 0 PCI January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 4 Product Overview January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 5 Installation INSTALLATION Hardware installation FCC Class A Radio Frequency Interference Statement Note This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against
86. f more than one 3COM 509 card physically present in the PC If there is only one 3COM 509 card installed in the PC the default is the address of that card Typically in the 200 300 range A hexadecimal base I O address Name device This is required Specifies the NT device name for the 3COM 509 card You may need to use DOSDEV to determine the device name See page 12 for more information PortID 0 FFFF 099 The default is 110 The I D port address Note that this is not the I O port address that typically is configured in the 200 300 range Use IoAddress to specify that value ROM filename The default is XHBOOT ROM Specifies the boot ROM The source to this file is available in the cross assembler at http www strobedata com osprey pdpxasm exe RxPkts 1 1000 The default is 10 Specifies the number of simultaneous receive packets W3 On Off The default is On which disables the sanity timer Controls the W3 jumper The W3 jumper controls the sanity timer disable NA900B Specifies a 3COM 3C900B network card NA900B DEQNA Address address The default is the actual card address A six byte hex string which represents the PROM address of the card as reported to the CPU The string must be in the format XX XX XX XX XX XX or XXXXXXXXXXXX DECnet Yes No The default is No DECnet receive frame filtering option Suppresses passing of frames with source addresses that do not begin with AA 0
87. f the Osprey called FSETUP EXE can be used to ensure that the CMOS setup is not modified inadvertently It should be installed in the AUTOEXEC BAT of all AT class machines FSETUP copies the contents of the CMOS to a file verifying that file against the CMOS whenever requested To more fully protect the setup it is a good idea to create a bootable floppy with FSETUP V in the AUTOEXEC BAT and boot it at least twice This floppy can be used to restore the CMOS in the event it is lost due to battery failure accidental erasure etc Hard disk reliability Another useful PC utility independent of Osprey operation is a program pair called FIXWATCH EXE and FIXSTAT EXE which monitor hard disk BIOS calls FIXWATCH is the TSR Install it in the AUTOEXEC BAT ofany PC FIXSTAT is invoked under MS DOS to display a report of calls to the disk drive and disk drive errors FIXSTAT should be run regularly each time that the machine is turned off although it can be run at any time Machine diagnostic A program called FTESTPC tests the reliability of the PC It is initiated in one of several ways Type FTESTPC M X D if the PC has XMS e g HIMEM SYS January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 17 PC Software Utilities FTESTPC M D if the PC has EMM e g EMM386 EXE without NOEMS FTESTPC M X E D if the PC has both XMS and EMM Status boxes are displayed while the program is running If the large box at the left displays any
88. ficant byte of the baud rate divisor This LSRMST command is not part of the standard as defined by Microsoft and was created for Strobe Data use with the CharPipe If written to the customer end of the named pipe this command is ignored by CharPipe Line Status Register The line status register LSR follows command bytes 0x01 and 0x02 when written to the customer end of the named pipe Bit Meaning 0x10 Break detected 0x08 Framing error detected 0x04 Parity error detected 0x02 Overrun error detected Written to the customer end of the named pipe 0 0x01 LSR data 0 2 0x02 LSR Line Control Register The line control register LCR follows command byte 0x02 when read at the customer end of the named pipe Bit Meaning Ox40 Break state to set 0x20 Stick parity 0x10 Even parity select 0x08 Parity enable 0x04 Stop bits 0 1 stop bit 1 2 stop bits 1 5 if 5 bits per word 0x02 Bits per character with 0x01 00 5 01 6 10 7 11 8 0x01 See 0x02 Read at the customer end of the named pipe 0 0x02 LCR January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 138 Appendix A Modem Status Register The modem status register MSR follows command byte 0x03 when written to the customer end of the named pipe Bit Meaning Ox80 Carrier detect Ox40 Ring indicator 0x02 CTS has changed state 0x01 DSR has changed state Written to the customer end of the named pipe 0 0x03 MSR Modem Control Register The modem control regist
89. figuration file may be in the PATH or the CNF environment variables The configuration file is an ASCII file Use the DOS program EDIT or other text editor to change the file Comments may be placed in the configuration file A comment begins with a semi colon and continues to the end of the line Blank lines are ignored in the configuration file Upper case letters and lower case letters are treated equally Whenever a space is needed one or more may be used to improve readability Spaces commas tabs colons and pipes are all treated equally When a space must be part of an option value enclose the entire value in quotation marks There is one option which does not specify a drive That option if used must be the first one in the configuration file Normally the menu will be 79 characters wide If you want to make the menu narrower set the MENUWIDTH option to a smaller number Each line must fully specify a drive That means that the Drive name must be specified and the size must be specified The size may be specified in one of two ways 1 Use HEADS and SECTORS and CYLINDERS with the desired parameters Note that TRACKS is a synonym for CYLINDERS 2 Use BYTES or BLOCKS or KBYTES or MBYTES with the total size Each option is specified with the option name a space an equals sign a space and the value for the option e g COMMENT 160mb drive or MBYTES 160 Example Configuration File MENUWIDT
90. gnals the user if a program unloads the tape UnitName string Specifies the logical device name used for user clarification WriteProtect On Off The default is Off Controls write protect QICTape Uses the ASPI interface for QIC SCSI tape drive See page 12 for installation requirements QICTape TMSCP Unit 1 Adapter 0 7 The default is 0 Specifies the ASPI controller number Unit 0 7 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 85 Configuration The default is 0 Specifies the SCSI device number UnitName string Specifies the logical device name used for user clarification TAPE Type Virtual Devices MSV05 Specifies an MSV05 controller Filetape Name BKUPTAPE MSVO05 Buf on Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 172520 Vct 224 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Buf On Off The default is On Enables buffering PhEnc On Off The default is On Enables phase encoded Unit 0 7 The default is 0 Specifies the unit number MSVOSB Specifies an MSV05B controller ASPITape MSVO5B Unit 1 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 172520 Vct 224 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Buf On Off The default is On Enables buffering PhEnc On Off The default is On Enables phase encoded Unit 0 7 The default is 0 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 86 Configuration Specifies the unit numb
91. harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense DCJ11 and ISA Installation New Unibus versus Old Unibus Starting June 1 1998 a new Unibus board has been included with Osprey Unibus systems You must install the software for the correct board If you install the wrong software the HWDIAG program see page 11 will fail Install the correct software and run HWDIAG again Characteristic Old Boards New Boards Date Before June 1 1998 June 1 1998 and after Engraved serial number 9470UB 9542UB White sticker on the back None Serial number 9542UB XILINX part number XC4002A XC4003E Fan edge connector Plain Orange sticker inside and out Rev on lower left corner Missing or Rev A Rev B or later January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 7 Installation UNIBUS Controller RevB 9542UB 94 T U E 9542UB Old board Pre June 1998 New board June 1 1998 on The Osprey must be plugged into a 16 bit ISA By default the Osprey board uses PC interrupt 2 and PC I O address range 320 32F The cards can be configured w
92. he controller to determine the class and model Drive TK50j The default is TK50 Specifies the drive to determine the type class and model Logging On Off Strobe Data internal option The default is Off Controls data logging Step 1 Delay 0 5000000 The default is 50000 Number of microseconds to delay before completing step 1 initialization Some systems RSX with UNIBUSMAP ON require a very slow step initialization Unit 0 255 Specifies the unit number TS04 Specifies a TS04 controller January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 89 Configuration ASPITape TS04 Buf On Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 172520 Vct 224 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Buf On Off The default is On Enables buffering Ext On Off The default is On Enables extended features PhEnc On Off The default is On Enables phase encoded Unit 0 7 The default is 0 Specifies the unit number TS11 Specifies a TS11 controller ASPITape TS11 Buf On Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 172520 Vct 224 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr plus 2 Buf On Off The default is On Enables buffering Ext On Off The default is On Enables extended features PhEnc On Off The default is On Enables phase encoded Unit 0 7 The default is 0 Specifies the unit number TSVII January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 90 Co
93. he drive type Unit 0 7 Specifies the unit number RK711I Specifies the RK711 18 bit disk controller Cluster Name MYFILE IMG RK711 Drive Options page 43 are allowed The default is Adr 177440 Vct 210 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Drive RK06 RK07 This is required Specifies the drive type Unit 0 7 Specifies the unit number RL11 Specifies the RL11 RLO5 18 bit disk controller Cluster Name MYFILE IMG RL11 Drive RL01 Drive Options page 43 are allowed The default is Adr 174400 Vct 160 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Drive RLO1 RL02 This is required Specifies the drive type Unit 0 3 Specifies the unit number RL211 Specifies the RL211 18 bit disk controller January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 54 Configuration Cluster Name MYFILE IMG RL211 Drive RLO1 Drive Options page 43 are allowed The default is Adr 174400 Vct 160 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Drive RL01 RL02j This is required Specifies the drive type Unit 0 3 Specifies the unit number RLV12 Specifies the RLV12 22 bit disk controller Cluster Name MYFILE IMG RLV12 Drive RLO1 Drive Options page 43 are allowed The default is Adr 174400 Vct 160 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Drive RL01 RLO2 This is required Specifies the drive type Unit 0 3 Specifies the unit number RX11 Specifies the RX11 disk Cluster Name M
94. hibits the initialization mode messages NDInhibits the splash screen QuietMode On RestoreOnHalt If Yes will restore the Osprey screen from a minimized state whenever the Osprey processor HALTs RestoreOnHalt No RXDelayDefault Specifies the default value for all lines which accept RXDelay RXDelayDefault 1042 SplashBorder Specifies whether or not a border is drawn around the SplashGraphic SpashGraphic Specifies the BMP file to use for the splash screen The BMP file may be of any size Startup January 17 2003 Configuration ALL IoRange The default is no Qbus present in the system If you specify ALL then any I O address that is not explicitly used by another line in the configuration file will use the Qbus If you specify IoRange you must give the initial I O address and the count Both are octal numbers and the count is a count of words The default is Off Yes No The default is No 0 1000000 The default is 0 Yes No The default is Yes A filename The default is an internal Osprey BMP file ODT TRAP24 173000 addr Osprey User s Manual Page 37 Specifies where the J11 will begin execution Startup 0 Title Specifies the text in the title line of the Osprey window TXDelayDefault Specifies the default value for all lines which accept TXDelay TXDelayDefault 1042 UCOFile S4
95. ices See page 65 CALENDAR KWVII CAL Clock Devices Physical Devices See page 57 Virtual Devices See page 65 CLOCK KWIIP CPU Devices Physical Devices See page 71 CPU KBI11 C KDJ11 E DOS Devices Physical Devices See page 76 Virtual Devices See page 76 DOSDevice DOSDevice GPIB Devices Physical Devices See page 79 Virtual Devices See page 80 11 IEUII Physical Devices See page 80 NA509 NA900BS January 17 2003 ODT Devices Osprey User s Manual Page 41 Configuration Physical Devices See page 82 Virtual Devices See page 83 StrobeODT ODT PROM Devices Physical Devices See page 84 Virtual Devices See page 84 FlatPROM FlatPROM TAPE Devices Physical Devices See page 84 Virtual Devices See page 86 ASPITape MSV05 FileTape MSVO05B QICTape RH11 TM03 RH70 TM03 TMII TMAII TMSCP TS04 TS11 TSVII TSV05 TU58 DMA General Purpose Interface Devices Physical Devices See page 76 Virtual Devices See page 76 DCI1109 DRIIW DRVII PIO General Purpose Interface Devices Physical Devices See page 76 Virtual Devices See page 76 DIO48 DRIIC Common Options for Virtual Device Configuration Some operating systems will report the CSR address of a controller For many controllers this is the same as the Adr required in
96. ideo bar shows the current option Select a new option by using the arrow keys to move the bar or typing the option number then striking the return key 0 Continue Core dump 2 Reboot CoProcessor 3 Continue to ODT mode 4 Abort program and return to DOS 5 Select new container file for disk 6 Enter new value for panel switches Functions are available which can not be selected with the reverse video bar These options are only available through function keys F2 Show caching statistics F5 Temporarily shell to MS DOS The Osprey control menu will automatically be displayed when certain error conditions occur If the Osprey control menu is entered because of a serious error parity error internal fault etc options 0 and 2 are disabled Option 0 Continue Resume the Osprey at the exact point that the inner control menu was invoked Option 1 Core dump Create core dump files on the PC containing both the J 11 memory and X86 processor memory The J 11 memory is in filename M11 and X86 processor memory is in filename M86 Option 2 Reboot CoProcessor This has the same effect as exiting the Osprey program and restarting it Option 3 Continue to ODT mode This will immediately enter the ODT Option 4 Abort program and return to MS DOS Terminate the Osprey environment entirely It is equivalent to turning off the power on the original Digital machine Make sure any operating system running on th
97. ifiers 35 hwdiag 14 LogBuffers 40 GETDISK 1 15 16 143 Osprey 29 LogFile 40 PC22 GPIB 47 91 92 logo 33 DIGI 71 oe Devices 91 LP11 46 79 Digiboard 71 Virtual Devices 1 72 Disk caching 21 GPIB Devices 47 LPV11 46 73 79 disk errors 49 LSRMST 68 153 157 Eo DN UM DOS Hardware conflicts 16 Physical Devices 88 Hichlieht 136 MaxWHOALoops 40 Virtual Devices 88 Peu 13 56 DOS Devices 47 48 88 89 90 8 MemorySize 40 91 ud 14 2 modem signals 51 DOSDevice 47 48 88 MSCP 16 29 30 32 33 46 52 DOSDEVICE 88 97 53 54 55 56 57 59 143 Drive Options 49 MSV05B 48 100 DTR 51 66 75 96 IEEE 91 92 Drei Dy IEQ11 47 91 92 dh 509 47 93 94 Installation 9 doi 68 Software 11 Instance Options 48 sicul d siees 92 Intense 136 pay EditCommand 37 Virtual Devices 95 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 147 Index Net Devices 47 RS03 60 61 NumLockKey 41 RS04 60 61 RS11 60 Qbus 12 16 36 41 42 143 RSTS 83 86 QICTape 99 RSX 32 60 101 103 ODT 1 29 32 35 38 43 47 QuietMode 42 43 exchange files 147 95 96 113 114 117 118 quit 113 RT 11 119 exchange files 147 physical devices 95 RUX50 59 ODT Devices 47 RX02 58 64 65 ODTBootsPROM 96 RA60 59 RX03 58 64 65 Options Radio frequency interference 9 RX04 5 8 6 4 65 configuration format 34 RAM disk RXII 30 46 63 OSPREY command line 33 EMS 53 RX211 30 46 58 64 Osprey control menu 35 113 MEM 56 RX33 30 59 1
98. ines if necessary Replaced by COM BB1004 Port 1 DLV11 Port 1 4 This is required Specifies which port to use Flow CTS XON The default is no flow control Enables CTS RTS flow control or XON XOFF flow control 16550 On Off The default is Off Enables the 16550 fifo lIoAddress address The default is 100 A hexadecimal base I O address for the Port Interrupt irq January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 57 Configuration The default is 4 If you have a COMI port you will need to change the IRQ on the BOCA Specifies the PC IRQ that the board is configured for BB1008 Specifies the Boca BB1008 eight port serial card This card uses RJ11 jacks that have only six lines Thus only two modem control signals CTS and RTS are supported The card comes with cables and DB25 adapters that connect these signals to DSR and DTR See the Boca manual a pondi A for detailed connector information Replaced by COM BB1008 Port 2 DLV11 Port 1 8 This is required Specifies which port to use Flow CTS XON The default is no flow control Enables CTS RTS flow control or XON XOFF flow control 16550 0n Off The default is Off Enables the 16550 fifo IoAddress address The default is 100 A hexadecimal base I O address for the Port Interrupt irq The default is 4 If you have a COMI port you will need to change the IRQ on the BOCA Specifies the PC IRQ that the board is configured
99. it On Off The default is On If Off disables the stack limit register at 177774 Switches value Specifies the 8 position DIP on a KDJ11 E CPU board This is not the equivalent of the toggle switches which are specified throught the swR option The octal number must be between 0 and 377 inclusive SWR value Specifies the initial value for the front panel toggle switches The octal number must be between 0 and 177777 inclusive See page 100 for information on changing the switches at run time Adr 177570 references this value SystemID 0 177777 The default is 73551 Uses the system registers at 177760 177764 SystemLowerSize 0 177777 The default is 170000 if 4MB are on board and 100000 otherwise Uses the system registers at 177760 177764 SystemUpperSize 0 177777 The default is 0 Uses the system registers at 177760 177764 UnibusMap On Off The default is Off Enables the Unibus map registers UnibusMap On uses 62 words beginning with Adr 170200 The Unibus map is enabled with this command For machines with the Osprey Unibus adapter connected to Unibus devices you must also include Unibus in your configuration file UnibusMemoryParity On Off January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 73 Configuration The default is On If Off disables the Unibus memory parity register at 172110 KDJ11 E Specifies the supported CPU type CPU KDJ11 E Line 50 The implied instance values are CPU Adr 1777
100. ith interrupt of 2 through 15 and I O address range from 100 to FFO Warning most I O cards do not decode all ranges up to FFO Therefore you should only use 100 3F0 for your I O base unless you have detailed knowledge of the I O decode procedure of your other add in cards Most I O cards will cause these ranges to be the same Set I 4xx 8 and Cxx This set is illegal Set 2 1xx 5xx 9xx and Set 3 2xx 6xx Axx and Exx Set 4 3xx 7xx Bxx and Fxx The Osprey board interrupt is software controlled and can be specified in the configuration file see page 32 The interrupt must not be in use by another card in the system Also on PCI motherboards the interrupt must be configured for ISA usage The device I O address range is controlled by onboard DIP switches The switches form the most significant eight bits of a twelve bit I O address The least significant four bits are always zero Switches that are down on the open side are read as zero bits Switches that are up on the open side are read as one bits The following diagram shows the default I O address of 320 Cooling is essential to reliability even longevity of the Osprey Make sure your PC has adequate airflow If your machine has enough slots leave an empty slot on each side of the Osprey card set to provide extra cooling January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 8 Installation PC considerations We advise our VARs to exercise extreme c
101. king Bli Gray Grey Black Blue Green Cyan LightBlue LtBlue January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 122 Red Magenta Yellow Bright Black Bright Red January 17 2003 Purple Brown Orange White Gray Pink VT100 CNF Osprey User s Manual Page 123 VT100 CNF January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 124 SCRMODE SCRMODE 9 SCRMODE is used to determine which video modes must be used for the VT100 emulation when selecting 80 column or 132 column modes Results Log File SCRMODE will generate a log file called SCRMODE LOG If the environment variable LOGIN NAME is set SCRMODE will use the value of LOGIN NAME as a base filename then append LOG Novell networks set LOGIN NAME automatically In any case SCRMODE tells you what log file it created D log file will look something like this Mode 0x02 80 column Grade Mode 2 0x03 80 column Grade Mode 7 0x07 80 column Grade Mode 85 0x55 132 column Grade Mode 87 0x57 132 column Grade Uum The grade simply represents whether the text mode uses B800 0 or B000 0 or A000 0 for its video memory You should use the grade A modes if they are available Video Controller Lock Up Problems There are rare machines that will lock up when certain video modes are set If this happens you need to exclude testing those video modes by using the N mode switch To determine which modes lock up the machine follow these directions First start S
102. line ASPITAPE TMSCP Unit 0 Then put the tape in the Digital TZ30 drive and boot DUO Once all customer software and data has been installed on the PC remember to change the configuration file for normal production use The Osprey PC system is then ready to run Typical IRQ and I O bases 5 This table is provided as a reference to avoid hardware conflicts when installing the Osprey in a PC with other I O cards IRQ The underlined interrupt number is recommended VO Most add in cards can be reconfigured The I O port listed is recommended gt LONE RN E22 NN 8 x 2 or Mouse s Strobe Mux 3 AB E 2 0 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 13 Installation Hardware I AB Etherlink Plus 34567 9ABC EF Xilinx BIN File Selector 9 The WHICHBIN program gets executed automatically during software installation It asks for the Osprey model number and copies the correct BIN file into OSPREY BIN If you change the model of Osprey you have or you answer incorrectly run the program again and give the correct model number You may get a help screen from WHICHBIN by giving the H switch An abbreviated form of the help screen follows WHICHBIN Rev 3 00 General form WHICHBIN args This program will select which BIN file to use for the Osprey Argument Meaning D dir Use this directory A Do all configuration This creates the th configura
103. may have extra configuration information The format for options 15 specifier option value option value January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 28 Configuration Note that the option value must be on the same side of the equals sign as the specifier that it modifies For example ASPITAPE Unit 1 TMSCP refers to the physical SCSI device number one and not the TMSCP tape unit one This flexibility allows for any physical SCSI device to be used for any TMSCP tape unit Quoted Strings File names as part of an option which contain spaces must be a quoted string Single quotes apostrophes should be used unless the apostrophe character is required Strings contained in apostrophes are copied directly with no escape characters or special handling For example Cluster Name C Program Files Strobe Data Osprey Images mydisk du0 MSCP Certain strings may contain characters that are not allowed in our normal Osprey configuration file You must enclose the entire string in quotation marks if it contains a semicolon or quotation mark It is not necessary to use a quoted string for J11File and related lines see page 1 For example the following three lines are functionally the same JllFile c Program Files Strobe Data Osprey osprey j11 JllFile c Program Files Strobe Data Osprey osprey jll J11File Files Strobe Data Osprey osprey j11 Within
104. me This is required Specifies the name of the pipe to create and use See page 29 for details about filenames with spaces ReadTime 0 4 294 967 295 INFINITE Specifies the number of milliseconds to wait after the attached virtual device character buffer is full before discarding subsequent read data The default is 100 milliseconds WriteTime 0 4 294 967 295 INFINITE Specifies the number of milliseconds to allow for a pending write to complete before discarding data from a subsequent write The default is 1000 milliseconds COM P S Snecifies a PC serial port Specifies one of many serial devices that is configured as a COM port in NT COM Port 1 DLV11 16550 On Off 099 The default is Off Enables the 16550 fifo January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 59 Configuration Flow CTS XON The default is no flow control Enables CTS RTS flow control or XON XOFF flow control ToAddress address 209 The default is taken from the BIOS configuration A hexadecimal base I O address for the Port Interrupt irg 99 This is required for Port 3 or Port 4 The default is 4 for Port 1 and 3 for Port 2 Specifies the PC IRQ that the Port is configured for Logging On Off The default is Off Strobe Data internal option Overrun On Off P The default is Off If Off relies on NT and X86 buffering to avoid overrun errors If On will lose data if the user program can not respond quickly enough
105. n is destructive and will destroy data contained on the disk it is writing Press ESC to cancel this option The disk test option 3 requires a special signature on block zero of the disk before it will test the disk If you have modified your CNF file to include more disks see the configuration section starting on page 27 then you will need to write the signature if you want to test the disks Both this option and option 3 disk test will destroy data on the disk January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 26 Osprey Chk CONFIGURATION Examples Most calls to tech support involve the configuration file Nearly all of those questions are answered in this section These examples are provided as the first part of this section with the hopes of answering these questions early and keeping customers running Simple Example Osprey Configuration File Interrupt 11 CPU KDJ11 E Startup 0 CON Console StrobeODT ODT Cluster Name C IMAGES RSX DUO MSCP Unit 0 This configuration file sets the PC IRQ to 11 and the CPU to a KDJ11 E The PC keyboard and screen CON are used for the J11 console addresses 177560 177564 An interface to the standard is provided A single disk is installed in the system The container file in C IMAGES named RSX DUO will be used for the first unit on the MSCP controller Complex Example Osprey Configuration File Interrupt 11 CPU KDJ11 E
106. nce Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 172540 Vct 104 Pri 6 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Rate 0 3 The default is 0 Specifies the default rate The rates represent 100k hertz 10k hertz line frequency and external Resolution 1 1000000 The default is the lowest legal limit as defined by the board Specifies the granularity of the timer The lowest legal limit is approximately 250 microseconds Smaller numbers cause a heavier burden on the Osprey In busy systems it may be better to raise this number KWVII C KWV11 C programmable real time clock Clock KWV11 C Resolution 1000 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 170420 Vct 440 Pri 4 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Rate 0 7 The default is 0 Specifies the default rate The rates represent 1mhz 100khz 10khz 1khz 100hz line frequency and external Resolution 1 1000000 The default is the lowest legal limit as defined by the board Specifies the granularity of the timer The lowest legal limit is approximately 250 microseconds Smaller numbers cause a heavier burden on the Osprey In busy systems it may be better to raise this number CPU Type Physical Devices CPU Specifies the processor type CPU KDJ11 E CPU Type Virtual Devices B11 C Specifies the supported CPU type The KB11 C is the CPU type for the PDP 11 70 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 71 Configuration CPU
107. ndard PDP operating system to copy your files Under most circumstances Digital disk drives are emulated by means of ordinary files Use the container file builder program P99CONTAINR to create an MS DOS file container file see page 107 Unfragmented file container files usually created in a freshly formatted partition will provide the best performance although a fragmented container file will not affect reliability After all container files have been created by the container file builder P99CONTAINR their names need to be added to the configuration file See the Configuration section beginning on page 27 for a complete description January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 12 Installation An installer with Osprey Qbus or Unibus board can download the minicomputer software by means of a disk to disk copy using standard PDP operating system utilities A GETDISK program is also provided with the Osprey software that may copy your disk as well See page 129 for more details See page 8 for Qbus interrupt priority on the Strobe Qbus Chassis Make sure that the controller you reference for the minicomputer disk is not defined as a virtual device in the configuration file Two other methods that may be used to move software are by floppy or by tape Floppies are accessible with the configuration line FLOPPY Drive 0 MSCP Unit 1 Then put the floppy in drive A Drive 0 and boot DUI Tapes are accessible with the configuration
108. nfiguration Specifies a TSV11 controller ASPITape TSV11 Buf On Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 172520 Vct 224 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Buf On Off The default is On Enables buffering Ext On Off The default is On Enables extended features PhEnc On Off The default is On Enables phase encoded Unit 0 7 The default is 0 Specifies the unit number TSV05 Specifies a TSV05 controller ASPITape TSVO5 Buf On Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 172520 Vct 224 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Buf On Off The default is On Enables buffering Ext On Off The default is On Enables extended features PhEnc On Off The default is On Enables phase encoded Unit 0 7 The default is 0 Specifies the unit number January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 91 Configuration TUS8 Specifies a TU58 controller This is not implemented as a tape device See page 57 for the TUSS description OSPREY CONTROL MENUS The Osprey control menu is available through the menu bar Click on File Edit Control or Window to control various aspects of the Osprey File Dump Memory Image is only available when the Osprey is halted Control Halt is only available when the Osprey is running and both Control Continue and Control Reboot are only available when the Osprey is halted Some of the control menu
109. nted using a double buffered scheme to improve performance The virtual I O handler e g coNsork has a buffer specified by TxBuff n on the right hand side of the equals sign The physical I O handler e g has a buffer specified by TxBuff n on the left hand side of the equals sign To reduce host CPU loading the right hand side TxBuff n must be two or more greater than the left hand side Additionally the larger the host side buffer the more the CPU loading is reduced Some systems do not respond well when large buffers are present The TxBuff n parameter can be adjusted to suit systems tolerant of large buffers or intolerant of large buffers Examples COM Port 1 TxBuff 20 CONSOLE TxBuff 22 Low CPU loading COM Port 1 TxBuff 1 CONSOLE TxBuff 3 Higher CPU loading COM Port 1 TxBuff 1 CONSOLE TxBuff 2 Very high CPU loadin Serial Lines and TxDelay using COM These calculations for reducing CPU loading should only be used in systems known to have extreme host CPU loading Except in extreme cases the standard calculation for TxDelay on page 43 may be used Some systems require the use of TxDelay n to reduce the effective baud rate while the buffers are being filled If the TxDelay n specified is longer than one character time the host CPU will be loaded much more than if TxDelay n is shorter than one character time It s a little complicated to determine whether or not the 1
110. o operating systems that it runs under The versions include the Osprey Osprey ISA and Osprey PCI The two operating systems are DOS and NT There are a few differences between the Osprey DCJ11 the Osprey ISA and the Osprey PCI There are also a few differences between DOS and NT When something applies only to one version a superscript notation will indicate the version For example X86CPU Generic DX 59 X86CPU TI T TIF TI2F INTEL IBM 0 PriorityClass Idle Normal High RealTime The Osprey uses several default filenames If you rename the OSPREY EXE file those default names change to the same base name as the OSPREY EXE was renamed to The following files will change from a base name of OSPREY to the same base name of the EXE Filename OSPREY X86 OSPREY J11 OSPREY BIN OSPREY CNF OSPREY CLD OSPREY FWQ OSPREY FWU OSPREY UCO OSPREY IOT OSPREY PRM OSPREY EEP OSPREY UMR file Defined on page 40 34 30 28 31 32 32 38 33 36 32 39 For example if you rename OSPREY EXE to STROBE EXE then the default filenames will be STROBE X86 STROBE J11 etc Since this name change affects only the default name there will be no effect if the configuration file contains a specific call to a file That means J11File OSPREY J11 is unaffected and still looks for OSPREY J11 in spite of what the EXE is named The files must reside in the EXE file directory the current directory a directory listed in the OSPR
111. oppy Drive 0 MSCP Unit 2 Drive 0 127 This is required unless Name is given Specifies the floppy drive by BIOS drive number Drive 0 is A and Drive 1 is Cache On Off 099 The default is On Controls the internal XMS cache See CACHESIZE page 31 ForceOnline Yes No The default is No Some operating systems will refuse to re test the floppy if the initial request to bring it online fails This ensures that the floppy will be reported as online even if the diskette is not in the drive Mount Yes No The default is Yes January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 48 Configuration Controls whether the disk is mounted during startup Name A B P This is required unless Drive is given Specifies the floppy drive by name UnitName string Specifies the logical device name used for user clarification WriteProtect On Off The default is Off Controls write protect MEM POS SPecifies base memory for use as a RAM disk Base memory limited to 640kb minus all DOS devices TSRs etc This physical block device has extremely limited uses and may make the shell to dos feature unavailable See page 100 for more about the shell to dos feature NDSbecifies a memory disk NT s virtual memory manager may actually manage all memory based disks on the disk depending on your computer s free memory etc MEM Name C IMAGES SMALDISK DUO MSCP Unit 2 Mount Yes No The default is Y
112. r explicitly disconnects and reconnects the LPT via the tool bar Not used with Port You may use either Name LPT1 or Port 1 to access the first printer Port 1 4 This is required Either Name or Port is required with Connect Yes ND Port reserves the printer for the Osprey and prohibits all other machines and tasks on the Osprey machine from accessing the printer NT will only allow one task access to a printer via the Port method Specifies which LPTn BIOS printer Not used with Name UnitName string Specifies the logical device name used for user clarification NT SMX 9 Specifies a Strobe Mux Replaced by COM SMX Port 0 DLV11 Flow CTS XON The default is no flow control Enables CTS RTS flow control or XON XOFF flow control loAddress address The default is 280 A hexadecimal base I O address for the Port Interrupt irq The default is 10 Specifies the PC IRQ that the Strobe 15 configured for Port 0 31 This is required Specifies which serial port WRQ Specifies a filter to WRQ s Reflection package a terminal emulator January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 64 Configuration WRQ Conn filter Console 8bit On Off The default is Off Enables 8 bit mode Conn name The default is filter Specifies the filter name to WRQ Delay 1 60000 The default is 20000 Specifies the maximum number of milliseconds to wait between s
113. rial number Space 0 65535 The default is 10 Specifies the number of blocks per SPACE command processed before forcing the tape status back Space 0 will process the entire SPACE command Some operating systems RSX in particular have problems if slow tape drives take a long time with SPACE commands In these cases the value may need to be smaller Unit 0 7 The default is 0 Specifies the unit number WriteProtect On Off The default is Off Controls write protect TM11 Specifies a TM11 controller ASPITape TM11 Unit 1 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 172520 Vct 224 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr plus 2 Unit 0 7 The default is 0 Specifies the unit number WriteProtect On Off The default is Off Controls write protect January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 88 Configuration Specifies a TMAI11 controller ASPITape TMA11 Unit 0 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 172520 Vct 224 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr plus 2 Unit 0 7 The default is 0 Specifies the unit number WriteProtect On Off The default is Off Controls write protect TMSCP Specifies a TMSCP controller ASPITape TMSCP Cntrl TQK50 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 174500 Vct 260 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Cntrl TOK50 TU81 The default is TOK50 Specifies t
114. rmation If you are unsure of which addresses are in use you can run SCANIO from the DOS prompt to get a list of addresses The following example shows a typical installation with a single MSCP drive with a I O base of 172150 Osprey Get Disk Program Rev 7 13 August 30 1996 Copyright 1996 Strobe Data Inc ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Type ESC to continue DU controller not found at 172154 vct 150 RH controller not found at 176700 vct 254 RH controller not found at 172040 vct 204 DK controller not found at 177400 vct 220 DM controller not found at 177440 vct 210 DL controller not found at 174400 vct 160 DX controller not found at 177170 vct 264 DX controller not found at 177200 vct 270 Device controllers detected 0 DUA Ready Vct 154 Adr 172150 Ints 9 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 129 GETDISK The main menu will look something like this 7 Show devices Show units PDP 11 Get Disk 1 Help 3 Get disk Dates 2545 4 Add device Gist Delete device Change device 82 Enter option When you choose option 3 the dialogue for actually copying the disk begins Answer v verify the or N to just copy without verifying Verification the default is highly recommended The program will next prompt for the DOS container filename Specify the full drive and path If the file does not exist you will be prompted to create it
115. s Manual Page 94 Configuration File Edit Bgm Devices Window Help Continue Halt Reboot File Edit Control 50 window Help Disks Tapes Consoles Printers Mount Dismount Disk Unit Unit Name Disk 0 Access Method Cluster Eile CAProgram Files Strobe DataeXOspreyAlmagesNimage du Browse Size Filesize WrriteProtect Logging Size blocks vyntelim BxX50 Format Mount Cancel Mount Dismount T ape Unit Unit Name Tape Access Method FileTape Eile C Program Files Strabe Data Osprey lmages filetape Browse Maxsize Available space WriteProtect Logging Mexsize KB Notify Mount Cancel January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 95 Configuration Capture End Capture Console Data xi Unit Name TTO Access Method CON File CAProgram Files Strobe Data Osprey lmaqes console cap Browse Mode Create truncate existing file or create file Capture Cancel Connect Disconnect Printer Unit Fe Unit Name Lpt Access Method Lpt Eile CAProgram Files Strobe Data Osprey lmages printer cap Browse Mode Create truncate existing file or create file Connect Cancel Osprey cnf Ele Edit Control Devices 10 7 Help Cascade Consoles Tile Consoles Horizontally Tile Consoles Vertically Arrange Console Icons Initialization Messages 1 20DT January 17 200
116. s required 99 This is required unless you have Name Specifies the SCSI device number Typically set by jumpers on the device UnitName string Specifies the logical device name used for user clarification NT Cluster POS Secifies a DOS file for use as a disk image container file Osprey bypasses DOS and accesses the file directly The file must reside on a local non network disk See the note on page 17 if using SMARTDRV File should be used when the container file is on a network drive or other drive which does not support a FAT Cluster provides significantly better performance NDA synonym for File provided to maintain compatibility with DOS configuration files Cluster Name C IMAGES BIGDISK DUO MSCP Unit 2 Cache On Off 099 The default is On Controls the internal XMS cache See CACHESIZE page 31 Flush Yes No The default is No When set to Yes forces NT to flush data to the disk as soon as possible after a write Normally NT uses a lazy writer to flush data when the system is otherwise idle Mount Yes No The default is Yes Controls whether the disk is mounted during startup Name filename This is required 99 See page 29 for details about filenames with spaces This is required unless you specify Mount No RX50 On Off The default is Off Enables RX50 style sector numbers Size blocks The default is the current file size Specifies the maximum number of 512
117. t B800 0000 Mode 0x01 Rows 25 Columns 40 Text B800 0000 Mode 2 0x02 Rows 25 Columns 80 Text B800 0000 Mode 3 0x03 Rows 25 Columns 80 Text B800 0000 Mode 4 0x04 Rows 25 Columns 40 Graphics Mode 5 0x05 Rows 25 Columns 40 Graphics Mode 6 0x06 Rows 25 Columns 80 Graphics Mode 7 0x07 Rows 25 Columns 80 Text B000 0000 Mode 8 0x08 Rows 25 Columns 80 Graphics Mode 9 0x09 Unsupported etc Help Screen A brief help screen is available when you start SCRMODE with the H switch SCRMODE Rev 2 00 General form SCRMODE args files January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 126 SCRMODE SCRMODE will determine the different video modes supported by your video controller It creates SCRMODE LOG with the results If your machine locks up while running this program fol low these steps Run SCRMODE A to log all modes Wait for the lock up Reboot and examine SCRMODE LOG The lock up happened because of the next mode to test Record that number Re run SCRMODE A N number where you repeat N number for each screen mode that locks up sg SCRMODE A N 0x09 N 0x47 epeat 2 3 until SCRMODE finishes un the last SCRMODE command except leave off the A 9 SCRMODE N 0x09 N 0x47 AWD Ed Meaning Insert the file into the command line Log all modes instead of just 132x25 and 80x25 Don t test this mode Quiet Don t beep while testing modes January 17 2003 Ospre
118. t mode Autowrap Yes The default is No If Yes makes the console wrap to the next line from the right margin instead of pegging at the right margin Capture Yes No The default is Yes if Name is given and No if Name is omitted Enables or disables capturing to Name Cursor On Off The default is On Enables or disables the blinking cursor Height 2 254 D The default is 24 Specifies the number of lines on the screen Using a number larger than 24 only makes sense for a glass TTY application This will provide more lines of history on the screen Numbers substantially larger than 24 will need higher screen resolutions See page 9 for more information Logging On Off The default is Off Strobe Data internal option Mode Create Truncate New Append Extend Write Overwrite The default is Create Specifies the method used to open and verify the Name Create Create file truncate if exists Truncate Truncate file must exist New Create file must not exist Append Create file append if exists Extend Extend file must exist Write Write to file must exist Overwrite Create file overwrite if exists Name filename This is required if Capture Yes is given See page 29 for details about filenames with spaces January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 61 Configuration Specifies the file that will capture data Special characters will generate time information An asterisk followe
119. tarting the winExec and connecting to it Pipe pipe name The default is no parallel pipe Specifies the name of the pipe to create and use See page 29 for details about filenames with spaces This specifies a parallel pipe WRQ sessions can be monitored with VTPIPE WinExec command line Specifies the command line to start the Reflection program Typically this will be WinExec C Program Files Reflection r4win exe N s osprey r4w CHAR Type Virtual Devices CONSOLE Specifies the standard J11 console Con Unit 1 Console Slot 0 Character Options page 43 are allowed Output Modem Options page 45 are allowed The implied instance values are Adr 177560 Vct 060 Pri 4 Slot 0 RXBreak ON OFF The default is OFF Causes a HALT when the BREAK signal is received This requires RXStatus On RXStatus ON OFF The default is OFF Sets the high order eight bits of the receive data buffer to the line status Slot 0 255 Specifies the slot number For devices of equal priority the device with the lower slot has priority Width 80 132 The default is 80 Specifies the startup width of the console January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 65 Configuration CSII Specifies CS11 type multiplexer Con Unit 2 CS11 Unit 0 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 160020 Vct 300 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Character Options page 43 are allowed except
120. terface See page 103 for information about the StrobeODT interface This is required for the ISA and PCI cards StrobeODT ODT Capture Yes No The default is Yes if Name is given and No if Name is omitted Enables or disables capturing to Name Logging On Off The default is Off January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 82 Configuration Strobe Data internal option Mode Create Truncate New Append Extend Write Overwrite The default is Create Specifies the method used to open and verify the Name Create Create file truncate if exists Truncate Truncate file must exist New Create file must not exist Append Create file append if exists Extend Extend file must exist Write Write to file must exist Overwrite Create file overwrite if exists Name filename This is required if Capture Yes is given See page 29 for details about filenames with spaces Specifies the file that will capture data ODTBootsPROM Yes Noj The default is No Forces address 173000 to be executed every time the ODT is entered This is especially useful for a site with a remote terminal and limited or no access to the PC console You must set PROM on the CPU line see page 75 to enable the PROM unless you have a boot PROM on an I O bus There is potential for bad behavior if your PROM does not boot or behave well or the system HALTs but must not be rebooted UnitName string Specifies the logical device nam
121. the DOS prompt and you have MEM in your configuration file you may have to remove the mem line and replace it with another RAM disk method See page 49 for more information about MEM You may not get the prompt if you were low on base 640K memory or your COMSPEC environment variable was set badly January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 100 Osprey Control Menu January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 101 StrobeODT STROBEODT The StrobeODT is an interface to the standard J11 ODT The StrobeODT provides extra features and tools that are lacking in the 711 ODT The StrobeODT is enabled when you add ODT to your configuration file Usage Summary The StrobeODT commands are single character commands Some of the commands must be preceded by the ESC key displayed as a dollar sign Some of the commands take an argument that precedes the command Some ofthe keys below will be spelled out for example DownArrow means touch the down arrow key once Program Control Commands pc G Issue the G command to the ODT Begins program execution pc P Issue the P command to the ODT Proceeds program execution count T Trace single instructions The registers are displayed after each instruction E Reboot the Osprey address B Display all breakpoints or set a breakpoint at an address number C Clear all breakpoints or a single breakpoint L Download a core image file beginning at
122. the configuration file Some devices do not have the CSR at Offset 0 so be sure to read the relation between the CSR and the Adr for the Virtual Devices Instance Options Adr value Specifies the base I O address The octal number must be between 160000 and 177777 inclusive Vct 0 1774 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 42 Configuration Specifies the vector address The octal number must be a multiple of 4 Pri 4 7 Specifies the interrupt priority Slot 1 255 Specifies the slot number For devices of equal priority see Pri above the device with the lower slot has priority Drive Options Instance Options page 42 are allowed Cylinders 1 32767 The default is specified by Type Overrides the number of cylinders Delay 0 1000 The default is 0 A decimal number indicating the minimum number of milliseconds allowed for disk operations Any host operation that would normally finish before the specified number of milliseconds has elapsed is delayed until the time minimum is satisfied Host operations that take longer than the Delay value are not affected This is used to simulate slow hardware when the existing code can not handle very fast peripherals DriveT ype 0 177777 The default is dependent on the controller An octal number that specifies the drive type Sectors 1 255 The default is specified by Type Overrides the number of sectors SectorSize 1 4096 The default is 512
123. the internal I O buffers whenever the LPR is updated If Off the buffers are only flushed when the LPR is set to zero Unit 0 15 Specifies the line number DHVII Specifies DHV11 type multiplexer Con Unit 2 DHV11 Unit 0 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 160440 Vct 300 Pri 4 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Character Options page 43 are allowed Flush On Off The default is Off If On forces a flush of the internal I O buffers whenever the LPR is updated If Off the buffers are only flushed when the LPR is set to zero Unit 0 15 Specifies the line number The DEC DHV11 only has units 0 7 and most sofware will only recognize units 0 7 TXDMADelay microseconds Specifies the amount of time to delay the DMA transmission after receiving the DMA start signal The decimal number of microseconds must be between 0 and 10 000 000 inclusive The delay will be rounded up to the next highest 250 microseconds This might be necessary for code that does not write the count low address and start signal in the proper order DLVII Specifies DLV11 type multiplexer Con Unit 3 DLV11 Slot 0 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 176500 Vct 300 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Each additional DLV11 configured adds 10 to the previous Adr and 10 to the previous Vet Character Options page 43 are allowed Output Modem Options page 45 are allowed
124. the low address register see page 104 M Display the current mode e g e SM Kernel I D Space Page PAR PDR Logical Physical Size Dir Access 0 177777 177514 000000 17777700 20000 DN Unused 1 177777 000000 020000 17777700 00100 UP Non resident 2 177777 000000 040000 17777700 00100 UP Non resident 3 177777 000000 060000 17777700 00100 UP Non resident 4 177777 000000 100000 17777700 00100 UP Non resident 5 177777 000000 120000 17777700 00100 UP Non resident 6 177777 000000 140000 17777700 00100 UP Non resident 7 177777 000000 160000 17777700 00100 UP Non resident January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 103 StrobeODT Memory or Register Access Commands address address address register R value Enter value LineFeed value DownArrow value valueJUpArrow value value H mask SI value W high S high N high SF address D number X Display 16 bit memory Use ODT to display absolute 22 bit memory I O locations are accessible through this access method Display Dspace memory This is the same as if Dspace is not enabled Display register The registers may be named RO R7 SP PC and RS Display all registers and the data watch variables Close the current memory location Close the current memory location and move to the next location The same as LineFeed Close the current memory location and move to the previous location The same as Set the low a
125. tion files WHICHBIN CNF and OSPREY CLI You should have the following line in CNF files Include WHICHBIN CNF Xilinx BIN File Selector Configuration takes place during installation To change the various configuration options simple re install the software and choose Software Configuration Only January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 14 Installation January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 15 PC Software Utilities PC SOFTWARE UTILITIES O9 Disk caching AII standard PC disk caching programs will cache Osprey disk accesses Disk intensive applications will benefit greatly from a good disk cache Norton cache and PC Tools cache are recommended over SMARTDRV but SMARTDRV can be used if nothing else is available The Osprey provides an internal cache using XMS for block devices Container File Access 009 special access method for files under DOS called CLUSTER access is implemented on the Osprey This method provides more performance than using DOS to access the files Unfortunately SMARTDRV does not cache our cluster access and reduces the performance measurably For best performance you should disable SMARTDRV and enable Strobe Data s internal XMS cache when using cluster access NDCLUSTER has been replaced by the NT file system If you specify CLUSTER in your configuration file Osprey will instead use FILE and allow NT to handle the disk access CMOS setup A utility independent o
126. tring should be changed because connections are non standard Only the last one of Conc and CxConfig will be used The Conc is easier to use and read Flow CTS XON The default is no flow control Enables CTS RTS flow control or XON XOFF flow control IoAddress address The default 15 204 A hexadecimal base I O address for the Port This must match the switches as set on the Digiboard Later model Digiboards may come factory configured at 324 That address January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 62 Configuration will conflict with the default IoAddress of the Osprey 320 You must change one or the other See page 33 for details on IoAddress Interrupt irq The default is 11 Specifies the PC IRQ to configure for the board This is software configurable by the configuration file Port 1 64 The default is 1 RxBuff 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 The default is set by the Digiboard depending on the number of lines on the Digiboard Used to reduce the size of the receiver buffer Segment A000 E800 The default is D800 Hexadecimal segment of the memory window The segment must end with 800 or 000 This is software configurable by the configuration file TxBuff 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 The default is set by the Digiboard depending on the number of lines on the Digiboard Used to reduce the size of the transmitter buffer LPT Specifies a file or device to capture data P 8 S pecifies a BIOS printer S The L
127. uration Drive RS03 RS04 RP04 RPOS RP06 RP07 RM03 RM02 RM80 RM05 This is required Specifies the drive type SW2 0 377 The default is 0 An octal number representing the internal serial version of the controller Unit 0 7 Specifies the unit number RH70 Specifies the RH70 22 bit disk controller Cluster Name MYFILE IMG RH70 Drive RS03 Drive Options page 43 are allowed The default is Adr 176700 Vct 254 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr SW2 0 377 The default is 0 An octal number representing the internal serial version of the controller Drive RS03 RS04 RP04 RP05 RP06 RP07 RM03 RM02 RM80 RM05 This is required Specifies the drive type Unit 0 7 Specifies the unit number RKII Specifies the RK11 18 bit disk controller Cluster Name MYFILE IMG RK11 Drive Options page 43 are allowed The default is Adr 177400 Vct 220 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr plus 4 Drive RK05 The default is RK05 Specifies the drive type NoWriteLock On Off The default is Off If On disables the Write Lock ability Unit 0 7 Specifies the unit number RK611 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 53 Configuration Specifies the RK611 18 bit disk controller Cluster Name MYFILE IMG RK611 Drive Options page 43 are allowed The default is Adr 177440 Vct 210 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Drive RK06 RK07 This is required Specifies t
128. uration Con Unit 1 DZV11 Unit 0 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 160010 Vct 300 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Character Options page 43 are allowed Flush On Off The default is Off If On forces a flush of the internal I O buffers whenever the LPR is updated If Off the buffers are only flushed when the LPR is set to zero Unit 0 3 Specifies the line number LP11 Specifies LP11 type printer interface Con Unit 9 LP11 Slot 0 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 177514 Vct 200 Pri 4 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Character Options page 43 are allowed Output Modem Options page 45 are allowed LPVII Specifies LPV11 type printer interface Con Unit 9 LPV11 Slot 0 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 177514 Vct 200 Pri 4 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Character Options page 43 are allowed Output Modem Options page 45 are allowed VRUII Specifies VRU11 type video RAM and DLV11 compatible multiplexor The output from a VRUII is VT100 compatible The DLV11 multiplexor resides at the Adr and Vct Con Unit 3 VRU11 Instance Options page 42 are allowed The default is Adr 175610 Vct 300 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Character Options page 43 are allowed Bell 160000 177776 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 69 Configuration The default is 177726 Specifi
129. us or Unibus is present EnableBusResetMenu On FatalX86Timeout Controls the fatal 86 timeout messages FWAFile Strobe Data internal command Specifies firewire adapter file FWAFile OSPREY FWQ FWRespTimeout Specifies the firewire timeout GCACycles Configures dummy Unibus cycles on memory refresh This is infrequently useful Halt Specifies the Kernel mode HALT option Halt ODT InitStepDelay Specifies the minimum time between consecutive initialization messages InitStepDelay 100 Interrupt EA January 17 2003 Configuration On Off The default is Off 1 4294967295 The default is 100 The number of milliseconds to wait before issuing the fatal X86 timeout message A File name The default is OSPREY FWQ or OSPREY FWU depending whether Qbus or Unibus is given See page 1 1 15000000 The default is about 4000 The number of microseconds to wait before reporting an I O bus timeout on the firewire The default is Off ODT TRAP BKPT C The default is ODT TRAP will cause TRAP 4 when user mode executes a HALT 5 cDgkpT will always HALT regardless of mode 0 10000 The default is 0 A decimal number of milliseconds 2 15 Osprey User s Manual Page 32 Specifies the PC IRQ number Interrupt 2 IOAddress Specifies the PC I O base which 15 set in the switch block on the Ospr
130. use Number of tracks cylinders to use Destination A valid DOS filename D Y N N N N PE ONG TRESS OR OE 17 le must follow these rules t begins with a semi colon and goes to the he line nes are ignored se and lower case are treated equally The MENUWIDTH option if used must be the first option d ons have the format TYPE VALUE ion must be on one line omma tab pipe colon are treated tions are Value Usage Number of bytes for this DRIVE Number of 512 byte blocks for this DRIVE Number of kilobytes for this DRIVE Number of megabytes for this DRIVE Osprey User s Manual Page 109 HEADS SECTORS CYLINDERS D RACKS RIV Gl COMMENT Example Number of heads for this DRIVE Number of sectors per track for this DRIV Number of cylinders for this DRIVE Synonym for CYLINDERS A title to use for the for D name Container File Builder Gl interactive menu and Displayed with the DRIVE in the interactive menu If the comment is more than one word enclose it in quotes e g 2mb drive DRIVE RD54 MBYTI 160 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 110 Container File Builder January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 111 Filetape FILETAPE Filetape is used to emulate a tape drive using DOS files See the configuration section on page 85 to install filetape Filetape is
131. will be written back to this file when the system shuts down See page 29 for details about filenames with spaces RX50 On Off The default is Off Enables RX50 style sector numbers Size blocks The default is all available memory or the size of Name if specified Specifies the maximum number of 512 byte blocks to be used UnitName string Specifies the logical device name used for user clarification WriteBack On Off The default is Off If Name filename is present turning WriteBack on will write the contents of the RAM disk to the file when the Osprey shuts down WriteProtect On Off The default is Off Controls write protect BLOCK Type Virtual Devices FWII Specifies the RX211 double density disk with FWD0106 and FWD1106 extensions Drive Options page 43 are allowed The default is Adr 177170 Vct 264 Pri 5 Slot 0 The CSR is the Adr Cluster Name MYFILE IMG FW11 Drive RX01 Deinterleave ON OFF The default is ON for units 0 and 1 OFF for other units Creates non interleaved physical media January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 50 Configuration Drive RX01 RX02 RX03 RX04 ST506 ST406 ST412 ST419 ST1100 RO204 This is required Specifies the drive type Unit 0 3 Specifies the unit number FWVII Specifies the RX211 double density disk with FWD0106 and FWD1106 extensions Drive Options page 43 are allowed The default is Adr 177170 Vct 264 Pri 5 Slot 0 The
132. will not go idle and you must use Osprey User s Manual Page 39 Configuration Delay 0 to launch them UseBIOSBell Yes No Uses the BIOS to make a bell sound The default is Yes If set to No uses a timer Scheduling may be disrupted if ves is configured and many bells are sent to the PC console UseBIOSBell Yes X86CPU TD INTEL IBM TI TIF TIF2 0 Strobe Data internal command GENERIC DX CSAP Specifies type of the onboard X86 The default is TIRO CPU The default is X86CPU TI2 X86File A file name Strobe Data internal command The default is OSPREY X86 See Specifies the X86 hyperspace file page 1 X86File OSPREY X86 Device Configuration Block Devices Physical Devices See page 45 Virtual Devices See page 50 ASPIDisk FW11 Cluster FWVII EMS MSCP File RF11 Floppy RHII MEM RH70 XMS RKII RK611 RK711 RL211 RLVI2 RXII RX211 RXVII RXV21 Character Devices Physical Devices See page 57 Virtual Devices See page 65 January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 40 Configuration Physical Devices See page 57 BB1004 BB1008 099 BB2016 099 CHARPIPES COM DIGI LPT SMX P99 WRQ P Virtual Devices See page 65 CONSOLE 811 DH11 DHUII DHVII DLV11 DLV11 J DZ11 DZQ11 DZV11 LP11 LPV11 TU58 VRUII Calendar Devices Physical Devices See page 57 Virtual Dev
133. y User s Manual Page 127 SCRMODE January 17 2003 Osprey User s Manual Page 128 GETDISK GETDISK Disk to DOS Container File Copy The Getdisk utility copies from existing disks on the Unibus or Qbus into container files You must have the external bus hooked up and powered on before you can use Getdisk You must also ensure that the NPR chain is intact A similar utility Putdisk copies from a container file onto the Unibus or Qbus This will destroy all data on the target Unibus or Qbus disk The command interface is very similar The Getdisk utility supports both the Unibus GETDISKU and the Qbus GETDISKQ The program behaves identically in either case POS To start Getdisk simply type either GETDISKU or GETDISKQ from the DOS prompt The batch file starts Osprey with GETDISKU CNF or GETDISKQ CNF To quit Getdisk choose menu option 2 start Getdisk click Start Programs Osprey Qbus Getdisk or Start Programs Osprey Unibus Getdisk Use the ESC key in GETDISK to back up by one menu at a time When the program starts it will test for several controllers and units The status of the auto detect sequence is displayed and then the initial menu will be presented The most common one or two addresses for each controller type will be automatically scanned for controllers If your controller is not at one of the default addresses you will have to specify the parameters to the Getdisk program See below for that info

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