I have a DL380 on the way to add to my ESXI cluster here at home. As a result I’m looking to finish virtualizing my DEC HW. What is the best way to convert a physical SCSI HD to a disk image for SIMH? I need to do this for both VAX and PDP-11.
One of the main systems that I want to Virtualize is a VAXstation 4000/60 with a BA350 shelf. The only HD connected to the system is a RZ28-VA SBB (2GB) as DKA200:, so yesterday I added a RZ29-VA SBB (4GB) as DKA100:. I setup Standalone Backup on the RZ29 and booted into Standalone backup. I tried to run the following: backup/image/verify dka200: dka100:[000000]20190420-system.sav/sav I ended up with a very strange “No valid storage bitmap found” error, and it failed to copy anything. Facility: BACKUP, Backup Utility Explanation: Software bad block data is not present on the volume. The volume has been initialized with no bad blocks. User Action: Execute the Bad Block Locator utility before using the volume. NOBITMAP, no valid storage bitmap found on 'device-name’ I tried ANALYZE/MEDIA, but may not have been doing things right. This is a Genuine RZ29-VA, but it was originally used as part of a disk array for a Sun Sparc system. My one thought is to see if any of the old Sun hardware I have around here will power up (I haven’t touched any of them in a decade or more), and to use ‘dd’ to image the Hard Drives. Actually at that point, it would probably make more sense to bring up an AlphaStation 200 4/233 running UNIX temporarily, as I want to convert one of my two into an OpenVMS Workstation. I need to see if either of them run, as like the Sun HW, it’s been over a decade. Thoughts/suggestions? Zane _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
