16 Dec
2014
16 Dec
'14
9:39 a.m.
On 12/16/2014 06:29 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 12/15/14 9:04 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/docs/simh_magtape.pdf is the document that
I'm using for this. I clearly have some extra padding in the
records--that's a bug in my own padding routine.
The document does say that records will be padded to an even byte
boundary--is this incorrect?
If I were to append a metadata record at the end of the image, would
this hurt anyone? Perhaps preceded by 4 tapemarks?
What I'd like to do is standardize the format in which I'm storing
images. In particular, metadata as part of the image is important.
SIMH doesn't seem to have any way to record corrected errors or even
un-corrected errors. Very strange; one wonders why.
Yes, it's a FORTRAN 4.5 tape--just one that I have lying around.
--Chuck
Okay, I've been working with my SCSI tape
stuff and I'd like someone
to check a .TAP image on a VAX VMS SIMH setup.
I looked at it with my tools. There are THREE extra bytes at the end of
the first record, before the 50 00 00 00.
Bob may pad to a short, but I don't think he pads to a long. The images
I create don't pad a record at all, what
you see is what you get.
Looks like VMS Fortran 4.5