Thanks for the help Fred....
Curt
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From: "Fred N. van Kempen" <waltje(a)pdp11.nl
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Sent: Monday,
February 09, 2004 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: SIMH Help
Curt,
> I'm just trying out SIMH and I'm not quite familiar with the way it
works.
> I've attached an image as an RL02 to the RL0
Unit, but where do I go
from
> there to get it to be assigned something similar
to what a real vax
would
> have, normally my RL02's would come up as a
DLA0: and so forth, I've
been
> looking through the SIMH help, but I am missing
something and I want to
make
the drive.img
file accessible as a drive in SIMH so I can access its
contents, thanks in advance for any help offered.
RL, address=20001900-20001909, vector=270, 4 units
RL0, 5242KW, attached to d:\rl02s\disk1.img, write enabled, RL02
RL1, 2621KW, not attached, write enabled, autosize
RL2, 2621KW, not attached, write enabled, autosize
RL3, 2621KW, not attached, write enabled, autosize
OK, looks like you indeed have an R/W RL02 image loaded. If this
is a VAX simulator, you will also need the KA655's ROM image (its
usually called ka655.bin or similar), so the VAX can load it and
then execute it.
After doing all the device attachments in SimH, you "boot" the
VAX by typing:
simh> boot cpu
which basically loads the ROM file, and executes it, reasulting
in the usual display of selftest messages, and ending you into
the wellknown >>> prompt.
A "show device" should indeed tell you it sees a DLA0 device,
which you can boot the usual way (boot dla0:) ...
Cheers,
Fred
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