16 Nov
2006
16 Nov
'06
7:09 p.m.
On 11/16/06, Seth J. Morabito <sethm at loomcom.com> wrote:
Second, SIMH simulates a MicroVAX 3900 with an RQDX3
controller, not a
SCSI controller, so I'm not sure that just imaging your drives will
work. It might! But it may also confuse things if your drive images
end up being larger than RA92 drives. I've never tried it.
Speaking from experience, moving a disk image from SIMH with an RQDX3
controller, to a VAXStation 3100 M38 with a SCSI controller onto a
real disk (via a DECStation 5000 and NetBSD) works like a charm.
I'd installed OpenVMS 7.2 onto SIMH, used dd on the DECStation to copy
the disk image byte-for-byte onto a real SCSI HDD, and booted the
VAXStation into OpenVMS from there. Even Mr. Supnik seemed surprised
when I e-mailed him and told him what I'd done.
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