5 Aug
2016
5 Aug
'16
7:44 p.m.
On 8/5/2016 4:48 PM, derschjo at gmail.com wrote:
I was able to expand the
compressed file using 7-Zip and generate the
iso image. However, when I tried to burn the iso to a CD Win7 reported
that 'The selected disk image file is not valid'. Not sure what all
that means, but anyway VMS can't handle a CD with 2048 block size so I
stopped fooling around with that.
Yes, I believe that is the way to proceed. Let the SCSI2SD be a couple
of drives, one for installing the software onto and another to contain
the installation CD image. At this point it is kind of a 'chicken and
the egg' thing for me, the only scsi interface I have is on the VAX. I
don't have one on the PC where the VMS image is, so I'm perplexed as to
how I get the software installation CD onto the SCSI2SD SD card.
On Aug 5, 2016, at 1:42 PM, Douglas Taylor
<dj.taylor4 at comcast.net> wrote:
Progress on getting the MVII up and running:
I ordered the SCSI2SD adapter and it has come in, the plan is to use it as the system
disk on the MVII.
The hobbyist VMS PAKS have arrived and I was able to download the VMS 7.3 iso, not sure
what I can do with it since I think it must be burned to a 512 byte sector CD.
Burn
it to a CD. Shouldn't be anything complex here. I asked if the PAKS were good for older versions
of VMS, like 5.5, and was told yes they were. We'll see about that.
The Hobbyist VMS CD I had for VMS 7.2 was found and I was able to get the old Toshiba CD
drive to work on the MV 4000 using a CQD 223A. How can I create an image of these
CD's on the VAX 4000 that I could use in an emulator?
I wasn't able to get the UC07 to see the CDROM because of a bad SCSI cable, I had
hoped to format the SCSI2SD using the UC07
Keep in mind that the SCSI2SD can
pretend to be a CD-ROM, and can emulate up to 4 SCSI devices at one go. No need to futz
with a real drive if you don't want to...
Josh
> Is it possible to use the SCSI2SD on a microPDP-11 under RT-11? I ask because of the
disk size limit under RT-11.
>
> Doug
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