RL02 version of UNIX6?

[william degnan]

>
>
> >
> > Mark and John,
> > Summarizing...The disks in the RL01 directory are 5MB, which is the RL01
> > disk size I believed, but if they are RL02, why would I not use "RL02" in
> > the simh commands?
> >
> > For example the code Mark wrote with John's changes, should it not be
> rlo2,
> > not rl01?
> >
> > sim> sho cpu
> > CPU     11/40, idle enabled, autoconfiguration enabled
> >        64KB
> > sim> sh rl
> > RL      RL11, address=17774400-17774411, vector=160, 4 units
> >  RL0   2621KW, attached to rsxm32.rl01, on line
> >        write enabled, RL01
> >  RL1   2621KW, attached to excprv.rl01, on line
> >        write enabled, RL01
> >  RL2   2621KW, attached to mcrsrc.rl01, on lineBRU (Backup and restore
> >        write enabled, RL01
> >  RL3   2621KW, attached to rlutil.rl01, on line
> >        write enabled, RL01
> > sim> b rl
> >
>         The v3.2 version I have from bitsavers has the baseline disk a few
> bytes larger than
>         an RL01 so simH autosized it (incorrectly) to an RL02. Hopefully
> Mark’s new sizing
>         code should avoid this in the future. To copy an RL01 RSX disk to
> an RL02 you can use
>         BRU (Backup and Restore Utility). Get the magtape image
>         BB-L974F-BC_RSX11M_4.5_BRU64K.tap from bitsavers. Attach your
> RL01 image to
>         rl0 and create a new RL02 image attached to rl1. Boot the magtape:
>
>         first device is dl0:
>         second device is dl1:
>
>         At the “>” prompt type “run bru”
>         At the “BRU>” prompt type “/init dl0: dl1:” and it will perform
> the copy. If you copied the
>         baseline system, you should be able to boot the newly created RL02.
>
>   John.
>
>
So essentially what you're saying is that simH by luck converted the disk
to RL02 because it was converted to disk format incorrectly, and that at
some point the disk image ballooned to 10MB from 5MB? Above you see the
output of
simh> sh rl

...after the re-sizing of the disk, would this config fail to be able to
load the disks because they were resized?  At some point these RL01's were
changed to RL02s?  Or can you with simH  simply load an RL02 disk even
though you set the rl = RL01?  See what I mean?

Bill