M7196 TSV05; s/n NU70829792

TS05 magtape transport (TS11 / Pertec type) controller

Location: Quad spares
Manufactured: April 1985 (8515)
Documentation: local PDF (bitsavers.org)
Quad width

Present Configuration Settings:

Vector: 224 (x 010 010 1xx)
- SW-E58 1,3,4,6 OFF
- SW-E58 2,5,7 ON
Buffering On
- SW-E58 8 OFF
22-bit mode off
- SW-E58 9 OFF
CSR: 172520 (x xx1 010 101 010 0xx)
- SW-E58 10 ON
- SW-E57 1,3,5,7,9,10 OFF
- SW-E57 2,4,6,8 ON

Acquired from eBay seller 'xxxx' on xxxxx for $xxxxx.

TS05 BOOTSTRAP (from TSV05 Pocket Service Guide)

@007776/ 046523
12701
172522
10102
5000
105711
100376
10704
112737
200
172523
5242
105711
100376
5711
100761
5007

@10000G

DOES NOT work with Cipher 891 drive
DOES work with DEC TS05 drive

2016-08-04

Temporarily installed in Data Translation LAB DATAX (PDP-11/03) for testing.

Can control transport, and read tapes, but was unable to write to tape.

2016-08-14

A review of all configuration settings on the drive and the TSV05 module show everything is good. Everything back into the system (PDP-11/03, 32KW (64KB), DLV11-J, AED-05/8 controller, TSV05) and it works! I can read and write tapes.

I'm still having trouble booting from a distribution tape that I made, but the bootstrap DOES load the MSBOOT secondary loader. It is when I try to load MDUP.MS that it fails with "MBOOT-F-T" and then hangs. I don't think that message is complete. Something is failing at the moment of printing the message whatever it is.