Why not use SimH VAX as the disk server? Simpler.
At 08:27 AM 10/7/2011, Brian Wheeler wrote:
>Is it possible to run the infoserver software on simh? I've got a pair
>of real VAXen running as a cluster and I'd like to provide more disk to
>them via my linux boxes.
>
>I've looked at the infoserver distribution on freeware v8 and it looks
>like two of the disk images are blank (infoserver 100/150 {disk,tape}
>function) and the infoserver/vms v3.5 won't boot on simh. That's not
>terribly surprising since simh isn't a microvax 3100/10 derivative. I
>modified the boot rom so it would look for IS1000_V35.SYS (which seemed
>to be the only bit of executable code in the infoserver distribution)
>and I got:
>
>>>>b dub0
>(BOOT/R5:0 DUB0
>
>
>
> 2..
>-DUB0
> 1..0..
>
>
>?50 SCB2NDINT, DUB0
>?06 HLT INST
> PC = 00000C1A
>>>>
>
>
>Is there any documentation on the LAD/LAST protocols anywhere? If there
>was documentation available it might make an interesting project...
>
>Thanks!
>Brian
>
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