fre 2017-09-29 klockan 12:52 -0400 skrev Paul Koning via cctalk:
> > On Sep 29, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > On 09/29/2017 10:56 AM, Henk Gooijen via cctalk wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On a related note my plan is to make a USB-based, Pertec-compatible
> >> controller for it. Not sure how SimH connects with peripherals so I'm
> >> /very/ eager to talk with someone familiar with its workings. I'll also
> >> release all the board files and firmware as open-source. Timeline as always
> >> is completely unknown, though I do have a now-vested interest in making it
> >> work.
>
> It looks like it only handles tape container files (.TAP files) right now.
> But the machinery basically has a tape emulation module (sim_tape.c) which
> has a number of functions roughly corresponding to what a tape drive does
> (read forward, write tape mark, rewind, etc.). It doesn't look like a
> terribly hard task to support a real tape drive as another "container file
> format". One question I can think of is how OS-dependent raw SCSI access is.
>
> The approach would be somewhat similar to the disk support in SIMH, which
> does already have "RAW" as one of the formats, meaning direct access to a
> real disk.
RAW disk does that also includes using a zfs/fc/iscsi volume as disk ?
It should considering they appear as sd{a-z} on the host.
