24 Apr
2019
24 Apr
'19
8:38 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
But there is some kind of bug that always appears at
the same point, in the
middle of the next 100K block after "6600K written".
The data transfer stops (no more head motion/ready light flicker on the
RL02), and the character that vtserver uses to indicate a write operation
just repeats endlessly and rapidly until I kill it.
More information and a correction: I let it run on, and it is still reading
and writing, but at a much slower and intermittent rate than the first 6.6
MB.
The filler character is just a time marker of some kind, since I can still
see the "r" indicating a read from the .dsk image, and the light on the RL02
flickers after a few of those.
So it's slowed way down, but not stopped! Even more mysterious.
Anyway, this disk has 13800 blocks out of 20800 used. If RT-11 stores data
(including the directory structure) starting from block 0, I may be able to
kill the writes after 7 MB.
(Unfortunately I think I neglected to squeeze the image before sending it to
the RL - and naturally the important TSX files are near the end - which
means I have to wait for most of it).
If I have to do it again, I'll squeeze and then kill it after 7 MB and see
what I got!