12 Jun
2006
12 Jun
'06
5:46 p.m.
On the bright
side it did come with a SCSI card.
Ugh! Then don't mess with the RA80s! If you like to look at them, leave
them there, but they suck way too much power for everyday use. At least
that's how I feel. For my 11/23+ I did my RSTS installs on a simulator
then used unix 'dd' to
copy the files over to the 10gb scsi disk I use.
Cool! I've been saying this should work, but this is the first I've heard
of anyone actually doing it. How did you create the disk image you
installed RSTS onto?
This would have the added advantage of not having to have the system up for
*days* while RSTS prepares the HD. Just a single pass on a 2GB drive takes
about a day on my /73, IIRC.
For the /34a which has two RL02s, I prepared the
images with simh then used
vtserver to copy the images to the RL02 packs. (10MB takes about 2 to 3
hours)
If you have the hardware, a VMS box is very useful for this. I have a
MicroVAX III outfited with RA72's and 73's, hooked up to a RL01 and RL02 for
just this sort of thing, the downside is it is seriously buried in storage :^(
Even a MicroVAX II CPU and RAM, along with an RLV12 that can be swapped into
the chassis the /23+ uses might do the trick.
Zane