On Sat, 18 Apr 2015, Rich Alderson wrote:
I assume you
want me to look at FILDDT on the images copied to a TOPS-10
system, correct, or is there a quick shortcut to FILDDT for a device?
Device-direct I/O is available under FILDDT. Do it from the console login so
that you're properly 1,2. If you run FILDDT and type /H to its prompt, you
will see what the options are. Basically, you want something like RPA0:/U to
start, and remember to multiply every sector number by 200 (octal) to get the
disk address right. The HOM blocks are sectors 1 and 12, so their addresses
are 200 and 2400 respectively.
Ahhhhh, thanks a lot! That's a MAJOR help!
Happen to have
any idea how to boot one from tape? Copy a DEC bootstrap
to the MSP disk and pray it considers one of the SCSI drives as a
supported drive?
Since DEC never supported SCSI hardware (that was done independently by SC and
XKL at different times for different hardware), that's never going to work.
I've heard (from Peter Lthberg that they're emulated (in certain
situations?) as massbus disks.
I don't have an SC install manual, so I can't
begin to guess how to boot from
tape. Sorry.
Alright, thanks.
I have something much more helpful right now. ;)
CompuServe KHK296 (built 2:19:37 PM Wednesday, January 22, 2003 in
[340,105]
Let's hope there's sources in [340,105]!
Rich
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