On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:15 AM, william degnan <billdeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Angelo Papenhoff <a...@papnet.eu> wrote: > >> On 01/02/17, william degnan wrote: >> > I thought this question was answered recently but I can't find the >> answer. >> > I have the RK disk version of UNIX6 for PDP 11/40 but I could not find >> an >> > RL02 version. does this exist? Can one be made using simH to dump and >> set >> > up for RL02 that can then be ported as a RL02 disk image to actual RL02 >> > drive? I can get an image onto the drive, should the image exist. My >> PDP >> > 11/40 is not compatible with Unix 7, but I would be happy with 5 or 7 if >> > it'll run on a 64K system. >> > Thanks >> > Bill >> >> http://www.tom-yam.or.jp/2238/rl/ > > > thanks. One other question...for those who use PDPGUI to write an image > to an actual RL02 disk, how long does it take approx to write, say, an > RT-11 5.3 disk using this method? > Bill > > Answer to my own question - about an hour for a small disk, as much as 3 hours for a large disk full of data. Once the image gets to what I assume is "blank" space, it goes a lot faster. You can see this by watching the READY light and the monitor panel. In the case of RT-11 5.0 it took over an hour. I assume the UNIX disk will take two or three hours. Bill
