7 Dec
2025
7 Dec
'25
4:04 p.m.
Peter
As it is a SCSI disk, you could simply image it on a Linux system using DD
Either a SCSI interface or a USB-SCSI adapter providing a path for the electrons
The resulting "gold" image can then be exploited on more stable platforms
Martin
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From: Antonio Carlini via cctalk [mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org]
Sent: 07 December 2025 21:28
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Cc: Antonio Carlini <a.carlini(a)ntlworld.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: MicroVAX 3100 ( was: Re: Re: VAX and OpenVMS)
On 07/12/2025 20:27, Peter Ekstrom via cctalk wrote:
I managed to reset the system password so now I can
login as well. It
runs pretty well.
I tried to make a tape backup of what's on the disk but it seems all
my tapes dirty-up the head of the tape drive. Anyone know of a way to
clean an actual tape?
Pull all the
tape out and wipe it with a dry cloth?
One option would be to create a SIMH VMS host, configure it to be in a cluster, configure
your real HW uV3100 to be a satellite node (booting off a root on the SIMH host system
disk), boot the uV3100 into the cluster, mount the uV3100 disk and back it up with BACKUP.
That might be easier and quicker than cleaning a tape.
Antonio
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