31 Mar
2020
31 Mar
'20
9:46 p.m.
I am happy to report that Supratim and I have managed to connect me to
his system, create a VAXcluster boot node on SimH, boot the system into
the cluster as a satellite and now running ANALYZE/DISK/REPAIR/READ
against the troubled disk.
-Steve
On Tue, 2020-03-31 at 10:00 -0400, Steve Davidson wrote:
Supratim,
If you can contact me offline I can probably walk you through any
number of scenarios to deal with this.
-Steve Davidson
SF:iP1
> On Mar 31, 2020, at 01:00, Supratim Sanyal <supratim at riseup.net>
> wrote:
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> On 3/31/20 12:25 AM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
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> > 3/30/2020 10:59 PM, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
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> > > I haven't tried burning but I used p7z
> > > through File Roller on a Linux Mint system. I have only
> > > used it
> > > as an image on Simh. I am not at my computer tonight
> > > but if you
> > > need it tomorrow I can get you a checksum on the
> > > unzipped image.
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> > >
> > > Ray
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> > Okay. Maybe it's a difference between Linux and macOOS. I
> > downloaded the file from WInWorldPC. The actual file came
> > from
> > someone named "Ricky" in Germany. The file downloaded was
> > "DEC
> > VMS 5.5-2H4 (Jul 1993) [VAX] (ISO).7z" I ran it through
> > "TheUnarchiver" and it produced a folder with two files. A
> > txt
> > file and "VMS 552h4 VAX.iso". I tried burning that ISO file
> > but
> > then I get the disk image is invalid error.
> >
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> > I'll have to get a copy of SimH running on my Mac and see
> > it it
> > can read the ISO.
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> Vaxhaven's AG-PXL1A-RE.iso is 236013792 bytes,
> Winworld's "VMS 552h4 VAX.iso" is 205508764. Neither can be
> burnt by MacOS directly from the GUI. The following command
> line
> results in a "raw" burn (remove the -testburn switch to
> enable
> the laser).
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> $ hdiutil burn -testburn -imagekey
> diskimage-class=CRawDiskImage -speed 2 Downloads/DEC\ VMS\
> 5.5-2H4\ \(Jul\ 1993\)\ \[VAX\]\ \(ISO\)/VMS\ 552h4\
> VAX.iso
> The Vaxhaven raw burn does not boot. I will
> try the Winworld version next. BUT, just to make sure the
> RRD42
> is not the problem, here's a couple of questions about it:
> 1) I have connected the SCSI cable at the
> bottom and a terminator at the top. Is this okay?
> 2) When I insert the caddie in (with the CD in
> the caddy), the green light turns on for a few seconds and
> then
> turns off. Nothing else happens. MicroVAX comes back to
> ">>>" prompt after a few minutes, no other messages.
> Should I expect to hear some noises of the plate at the
> bottom
> of the caddie moving sideways to expose the CD to the
> laser,
> etc?
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> Also, even if I get to a point where I boot into standalone
> backup, how am I to fix the problem with DKA100's contiguity
> issue?
> The previous owner said he had actual PAKs that he could not
> find, but are loaded in the LMF databse. I would very much
> like to
> at least be able to copy the LMF and am averse to
> reinstalling a
> fresh copy of VMS on DKA100 (everyobdy here will understand
> exactly why this is super-important now).
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> > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 11:53 PM John H. Reinhardt
> > > <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org
> > > <mailto:johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org>> wrote:
> > >
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> > >
> > > On 3/30/2020 10:46 PM, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
> > >
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> > > > I have tried both the VAXHaven and WinWorldPC
> > > copies of
> > > 5.5-2H4 and I tend to agree that the VAXHaven one is
> > > corrupted
> > > (at least it's never worked for me). But the WinWorldPC
> > > copy
> > > works great. Also, corrupt is the MicroVMS 4.7 TK50
> > > image on
> > > VAXHaven.
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > > Ray
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The file I got from WinWorldPC came as a ".7z"
> > > archive. and
> > > I unpacked it with "TheUnarchiver". Does that match
> > > what you
> > > did? The file I get from that always gets the "Could
> > > not burn
> > > "VMS 552h4 VAX.iso". The disk image is invalid."
error
> > > from the
> > > Mac disk burn software.
> > >
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> > >
> > > Did you do something differently?
> > >
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> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > John H. Reinhardt
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> -- Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT39.19151 N, 77.23432 WQCOCAL::SANYAL
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