Re: VMS EXCHANGE format for VAX console media

2015-06-07 Thread Mark J. Blair
> On Jun 5, 2015, at 19:05 , Johnny Billquist wrote: > See if you can spot the RT-11 file system in there. Aha, is the console tape supposed to be in RT-11 format? That's something I can look for. My home-grown RT-11 filesystem finagling utility barfed on my "suspected good" raw image, but tha

Re: VMS EXCHANGE format for VAX console media

2015-06-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-06 01:57, Mark J. Blair wrote: I have a copy of an 11/730 console tape which I have been told is in EXCHANGE format as created by the CONSCOPY utility. Can any of the VMS experts here help this VMS noob learn how to translate that into a raw block-level image of the corresponding TU

Re: VMS EXCHANGE format for VAX console media

2015-06-07 Thread Peter Coghlan
> > I have a copy of an 11/730 console tape which I have been told is in EXCHANGE > format as created by the CONSCOPY utility. Can any of the VMS experts here > help this VMS noob learn how to translate that into a raw block-level image > of the corresponding TU58 tape, which I might be able to use

RE: VMS EXCHANGE format for VAX console media

2015-06-07 Thread Robert Armstrong
FWIW, I can confirm that the 730 console tapes are in RT11 format, as are the 750's. DEC standardized on that format for console media, even though there is no actual PDP-11 involved in the 725/730/750. And EXCHANGE has the ability to create "virtual" media images on disk. The CONSCOPY scrip

Re: VMS EXCHANGE format for VAX console media

2015-06-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-06 04:08, Mark J. Blair wrote: On Jun 5, 2015, at 19:05 , Johnny Billquist wrote: See if you can spot the RT-11 file system in there. Aha, is the console tape supposed to be in RT-11 format? That's something I can look for. My home-grown RT-11 filesystem finagling utility barfed