27 Sep
2011
27 Sep
'11
5:37 a.m.
On 27/09/11 7:17 AM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
On Tuesday (09/27/2011 at 06:00AM -0400), allison
wrote:
Didn't Warren Toomey already write one of these?
I saw an appendix on the TU58 command set in the VT-103 manual (which is
on Bitsavers I think).
--Toby
Warning it's slow! And it's only 512 sectors of 512bytes.
I'm likely to be writing a Linux app to communicate with the TU58
very soon. I am restoring a TU58 and need a debug tool to talk to it
more conveniently than using one of my PDP-11.
So, in the next couple weeks, I might have something that can chat with the
drive and read/write some blocks.
But, it'll be for Linux. I don't get anywhere near any Microsoft OS.
The unique option similar to this that I want is
one MS-DOS driver in
SpareTime Gizmos, but to use the TU58 as one MS-DOS storage unit. But, what
I have in mind is similar but different at the same time. I want to manage
the TU-58 contents in DEC native format.
The TU58 has no native format. It's addressed as 512byte blocks.
Any other format is imposed but the host system, for example RT11,
RSX11, VMS (VMboot and VMS). Also, SPc noted,
* In appeareance the Current flows by the main
board of the device (the RED
led indicates so)
...
Chris