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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"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
--
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
Hello!
Right now what are you running? Mr Wilson's E11 does Windows(!) it
also does DOS, and then Linux.
-----
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
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
