On Thu, 15 May 2014, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:
El 15/05/2014, a les 5.15, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> va escriure:
The RZ25 didn't have the disk to copy the image I had ready.
Thankfully...it failed (apparently something went short as it being plugged in makes the VAX /fail to power on/) so I can use my 526M drive!
Hi Cory,
I'm perhaps a little bit late catching this train, but... what was the original problem you are trying to solve using this kind of hardware sorcery? Your first post mentioned something along you being unable to install RSTS/E under simh from tape... could you be more specific? I have a running RSTS/E installation which I built from an install tape, and perhaps I could help you to fix the initial problem which triggered all this disk size/connection/style thing...
First I need to find the exact size of the drive so I can set an RAUSER to it. I can then install RSTS/E *IF* I can get SIMH to boot and install from the RSTS/E V10.1 tape (which I can't get it to do).
Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
jg at jordi.guillaumes.name
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El 15/05/2014, a les 5.15, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> va escriure:
The RZ25 didn't have the disk to copy the image I had ready.
Thankfully...it failed (apparently something went short as it being plugged in makes the VAX /fail to power on/) so I can use my 526M drive!
Hi Cory,
I'm perhaps a little bit late catching this train, but... what was the original problem you are trying to solve using this kind of hardware sorcery? Your first post mentioned something along you being unable to install RSTS/E under simh from tape... could you be more specific? I have a running RSTS/E installation which I built from an install tape, and perhaps I could help you to fix the initial problem which triggered all this disk size/connection/style thing...
Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
jg at jordi.guillaumes.name
HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES
On Wed, 14 May 2014, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 05/14/2014 10:40 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Any alternate ideas? I'm leaning towards the first. Are the SIMH RA81
disk images anything special or can I shove one directly on a drive on
an MSCP-emulating SCSI controller?
Yes, this works; I've done it many times with several DEC OSs,
targeting both DEC drives and DEC-drive-emulating SCSI and ESDI drives.
I'll go find a system that'll let me copy an image to a SCSI drive
with an IDC connector, then. Sweet.
Bah! I have an RZ25 and the image is 435M. 35M short. :(
35M short? For what?
The RZ25 didn't have the disk to copy the image I had ready.
Thankfully...it failed (apparently something went short as it being plugged in makes the VAX /fail to power on/) so I can use my 526M drive!
-Dave
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Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On 05/14/2014 10:40 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Any alternate ideas? I'm leaning towards the first. Are the SIMH RA81
disk images anything special or can I shove one directly on a drive on
an MSCP-emulating SCSI controller?
Yes, this works; I've done it many times with several DEC OSs,
targeting both DEC drives and DEC-drive-emulating SCSI and ESDI drives.
I'll go find a system that'll let me copy an image to a SCSI drive
with an IDC connector, then. Sweet.
Bah! I have an RZ25 and the image is 435M. 35M short. :(
35M short? For what?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Wed, 14 May 2014, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Wed, 14 May 2014, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 05/14/2014 10:13 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Any alternate ideas? I'm leaning towards the first. Are the SIMH RA81
disk images anything special or can I shove one directly on a drive on
an MSCP-emulating SCSI controller?
Yes, this works; I've done it many times with several DEC OSs,
targeting both DEC drives and DEC-drive-emulating SCSI and ESDI drives.
I'll go find a system that'll let me copy an image to a SCSI drive with an IDC connector, then. Sweet.
Bah! I have an RZ25 and the image is 435M. 35M short. :(
-Dave
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On Wed, 14 May 2014, John Wilson wrote:
From: Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net>
Also: e11 doesn't work in DOSbox.
E11 doesn't like XMS. Set "xms=false" and "ems=false" in your dosbox-0.74.conf
and you should be golden.
Yup. Seems to have worked! Thanks!
John Wilson
D Bit
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Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On Wed, 14 May 2014, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 05/14/2014 10:13 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Any alternate ideas? I'm leaning towards the first. Are the SIMH RA81
disk images anything special or can I shove one directly on a drive on
an MSCP-emulating SCSI controller?
Yes, this works; I've done it many times with several DEC OSs,
targeting both DEC drives and DEC-drive-emulating SCSI and ESDI drives.
I'll go find a system that'll let me copy an image to a SCSI drive with an IDC connector, then. Sweet.
-Dave
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On 05/14/2014 10:13 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Any alternate ideas? I'm leaning towards the first. Are the SIMH RA81
disk images anything special or can I shove one directly on a drive on
an MSCP-emulating SCSI controller?
Yes, this works; I've done it many times with several DEC OSs,
targeting both DEC drives and DEC-drive-emulating SCSI and ESDI drives.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Wed, 14 May 2014, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Right now what are you running? Mr Wilson's E11 does Windows(!) it
also does DOS, and then Linux.
Windows Server (for PXE), DOS, OpenVMS, TOPS-20, TOPS-10, IRIX, 4.3BSD, OS X< OpenBSD, FreeBSD, CP/M (soon).
It only supports 2 of those! ;)
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
So, it seems I can't install RSTS/E from tape using simh (I need to set a
custom disk size to fit it on an RZ23 I think). The RA81 is too big to fit
and I have no idea what size the random SCSI drive lying on my living room
floor is...but I think it's a bit overly large.
I'd love to just do a full install...but I have no idea if I can get a TK50
to work long enough to do that.
Also: e11 doesn't work in DOSbox.
Options:
1). Use a large drive
2). Install linux
3). Copy tape images and e11 over to pentium/233
4). Spend the next 96 hours fiddling with a TK50 continuously
Any alternate ideas? I'm leaning towards the first. Are the SIMH RA81 disk
images anything special or can I shove one directly on a drive on an
MSCP-emulating SCSI controller?
-- Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
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Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
From: Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net>
Also: e11 doesn't work in DOSbox.
E11 doesn't like XMS. Set "xms=false" and "ems=false" in your dosbox-0.74.conf
and you should be golden.
John Wilson
D Bit
