19 Dec
1998
19 Dec
'98
4:45 a.m.
Now the first
quesiton is this. I've got a bunch of RL01's and RL02's with
software on them, and when I got them I backed them up onto my Linux box so
I could play with them in the Emulator without having RL01/02 drives in the
house. Using the network I should be able to transfer those Disk Images
over to the PDP-11. However, can I mount those disk images under RSX-11M
4.2 like I can RT-11 disk images under RT-11? If so what do I need to do
this?
If you wanted access to the RT-11 files on the RL02, you'd use FLX. Type
HELP FLX at the MCR prompt. I suspect that you want to access the "raw"
image, though. If you were
using 11M+, you'd do a MOU /FOR, then you'd be able to block-address
the drive as the file "DL0:", etc. Under 11M you don't even have to do
the /FOR (though you may have to do an ALLocate.)
Well, I got a couple of RL01 images transferred over to the PDP-11 and
using RSX-11M 4.2 I've looked through the manuals for MOUnt, ALLocate, and
ASSign. I also spent a bunch of time experimenting this morning, but
failed to come up with a solution.
have a
tapedrive, and I've not run the network out to the garage. So is it
possible to have the VAX access the TK-50 on the PDP-11/73 via DECnet?
FAL on RSX won't let you do so. But you could upgrade to 11M+ 4.5, and
use VCP to make a tape image. But even this isn't very smooth.
My favorite solution would be sneakernet - pull the drive and controller
and move it !