> On Oct 9, 2024, at 5:27 PM, Zane Healy <heal...@avanthar.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 9, 2024, at 10:22 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Earlier there was a question about MSCP disk sizes. I did some checking.
>>
>> RSTS understands all the devices known by name in SIMH, including the
>> "giant" RF73. As of the "big disk" support, which is in V10.1 and I think a
>> few earlier versions, it can handle something that big. It draws the line
>> at 4096 MB; bigger than that and it will tell you the disk is too big when
>> you try to initialize it. I thought it might use only the part it can
>> handle, but no, it simply refuses entirely.
>>
>> Paul
>
>
> I hate to think what setting up a 4GB drive would look like. I have a 1GB
> SCSI HD for my PDP-11/73 (assuming the drive isn’t dead). I still remember
> just how long it took the RSTS/E 10.1 install to prepare that drive (so long
> I only did a single pass on the drive test).
True, though of course you can tell it to skip the pattern test, and then you
can also tell it to skip the erase pass. If you do this then the initialize is
quite fast.
paul
