On 07/16/2015 05:40 AM, Hans-Ulrich Hölscher wrote: > if you want to image your disks and floppies for use with simh, > there's an easy way to do it. All you need is a (Micro-)VAX > having the appropriate drive(s) running VMS. > MOUNT/FOREIGN <device-name> > COPY/LOG <device-name> yourimagename.img > DISMOUNT <device-name> > Don't worry about the error message at the end of the COPY process > - that's normal, just that copy discovers the end of media. > You get an image containing all the blocks of your device in > logical order - VMS will take care of the device details.
That sounds like the really easy way to do it. Does it copy track 0 of RX01/02 floppies? I finally got a MicroVAX 3300 up and running again. Most of my RF3x drives seem to have died while in storage. Now I have to see if any of the RX02 drives will still work. > Will you make your images available? Absolutely! I'm still working on the 9-track tapes, after a several-week pause due to my Alpha XP1000 dying and me taking time out for a couple of all-weekend endurance races (24 Hours of LeMons -- the fruit, not the town in France). I plan to put all my DEC media images on CDs so I can easily make copies. Each tape/floppy image will be accompanied by a text file with the label and other information, and a .JPG photo of the media and label. I've done about 300 tapes so far, of which 82 are DEC. I have another 300 or so to do. I should be done in a couple of months. Alan Frisbie _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
