Copying tapes on a VT103? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Aug 2002

...
 The VT103 unit has two tape drives and I think you can
copy from one to
the other it just a matter of knowing the correct commands, hence the
reason for this email. Therefore I would be most grateful for any
suggestions you could suggest for the commands required to copy from
drive 0 to drive 1, we have so far tried the following:

Note :- RT11FB.SYS = Boot program (I think) 
...
 i)	COPY/BOOT RT11FB.SYS
	TO: DD1 
...
 ii)	COPY/SYS
	FROM? DD0
	TO? DD1

The second method kicks up the following: - PIP-F-FILE NOT FOUND 
If these are the commands as used verbatim, then it is looking for
a *file* by the name of DD0.  You need to specify the device name,
so use 'DD0:'.  (I'm surprised it didn't report the name of the file
it didn't find.)  So, the command should be:

	COPY/SYS DD0: DD1:

Doing this, however, will not result in an optimized tape... it may
actually take a relatively long time to boot.  I actually got a
TU58-based system to boot in as little as 30 seconds by judicious
placement of the system files.  If you (or other people) are
interested, I could write it up...

					Megan Gentry
					Former RT-11 Developer

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