Aha! Ok great, I need to look closer at those then. Thank you! On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 9:23 AM cz <c...@alembic.crystel.com> wrote:
> use pdp11gui or vtserver. They can use ODT to upload a small program to > the 11 which allows it to send or receive an image to a MCSP or > RL/RX/Whatever drive. Can be slow (top speed is 9600 or 19200 baud on an > 11/23) but it does get the job done. > > C > > > On 10/20/2024 9:02 AM, Peter Ekstrom wrote: > > Thank you all for the tips and pointers. I like the idea of pulling the > > image off of my real drive, but how would I transfer it between the pdp > > and my Linux box with Simh? It is too big for the tu58 emulator. > > > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 03:15 cz via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org > > <mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: > > > > > If you go this route, be advised, that SIMH creates RD32 disk > > images > > > are not the same size as a real RD32. This will likely cause > > problems > > > when writing a SIMH created image to a real disk (and I'm not > > talking > > > about the additional issues that the trailing metadata on disk > > images > > > from the Pizzolato version of SIMH can cause - the problem I'm > > > describing is caused by an incorrect disk size value in SIMH). > > > > True, I think you can get around this by making them disk in SIMH a > > couple of blocks smaller. > > > > However there is another way. Format your real RD32 with the RQDX3 > > formatter, then once formatted suck it into a file. Then you have an > > exact replica you can mount in SIMH and load it up. > > > > I did this with a 154mb Hitachi ESDI MCSP disk that went "bad" 30 > years > > ago and would not boot. Sucked it in, booted RSX11M off a virtual > > drive, > > then mounted it. Turns out when I did a purge of old files I deleted > > the > > RSX11M.TSK file I was using to boot because I forgot to do a /SAV / > > WB in > > VMR to update the boot block to the new file location. Did that, > system > > booted, then copied it back to the "real" Hitachi disk. > > > > Back in operation. :-) > > > >
