On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 07:13 +0200, Philipp Hachtmann wrote:
Hi,
after several cleaning orgies, my SMD disk (AMPEX DFR-996, see other
posting) seems to start working.
Now I want to backup the data contained on the disks. These are RSX-11
volumes. I cannot read them under RT11. And I don't know if I can make a
diskette RSX-11 to inspect the data. Or is there a preogram which runs
on rt11 and is able to understand rsx11 filesystem? That would be great!
My first idea for the backup was "copy/device dm0: tt:" which works. But
there is no error correction and still only 19200 baud.
So tell me, what are the really cool methods to transfer data between a
PC and a real PDP11 at a reasonable speed? SCSI controller and SCSI
disk? Something else? Ethernet?
Or is a backup over serial line a normal thing...?
I found that the best way to backup/restore is to use tape. I have a
TU80 on the PDP and a SCSI 9-track on the PC. Works great and is much
faster than the serial line.
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TTFN - Guy