12 Aug
2007
12 Aug
'07
10:14 a.m.
Mr Ian Primus wrote:
My attempts to boot the MicroVax continue:
After much digging around at the house, I finally
found another TK50 cartridge. This one is in good
condition. I cleaned my SCSI TK50 drive, and mounted
the tape. It read fine, I was able to dd the contents
(one ~70mb VMS data file, with header and trailer) off
the tape and onto my PC. So far so good. I erased the
tape, and tried to write the NetBSD boot.fs to it.
dd if=boot.fs of=/dev/nst0 bs=512
Another advice: get Eric Smith's tapecopy program, and check, if the
block sizes on tape are really the ones you thought you are writing.
Helped me a lot in the past.
Cheers