According to
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/vax.html
and
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/pdp11.html
Both mention the RA73, which is a 2Gb drive (that I'd really love to use with
SIMH !)
I am trying to run the MicroVAX 3900 flavor of SIMH, but when I try to put SET
RQ2 RA73 in my VAX.INI file I
All of the PDP-11 and VAX operating systems that I know of (with one exception)
that can talk
to MSCP disk drives, will talk to arbitrary sized MSCP disk drives. Maybe they
cannot use all the capacity
depending on the file system. (RT-11 has 65K blocks max per file system, ODS-1
depends on the
v
Tim
Doing a bit more digging, it looks like if I just use the SIMH “RAUSER” disk
type, and give it a size large enough for my needs, I’ll be OK. The
precompiled SIMH binaries for Windows include 64 bit file support so I can go
bigger than 2Gb without any problems.
I also came across a a
Jason,
My recollection is that VMS Backups save sets written directly to tape
use ANSI labelled tape format. That made it possible to VMS COPY a
Backup save set from a mounted tape to disk or from disk to a mounted
tape. You would not only have to copy the Backups save set files you
have
>>
>> I have a number of VMS BACKUP savesets that were created as disk
>> files on my VAX host, and then FTP-ed in BINARY mode to a PC.
>>
>> What's the easiest way to convert them into SIMH magtape files so
>> that they can be accessed by VMS running within SIMH as tape-based
>> savesets ?
