10 Oct
2024
10 Oct
'24
5:09 p.m.
On Oct 9, 2024, at 5:27 PM, Zane Healy
<healyzh(a)avanthar.com> wrote:
On Oct 9, 2024, at 10:22 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
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
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).