MicroVax II update

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> On Aug 5, 2016, at 1:42 PM, Douglas Taylor <dj.taylor4 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Progress on getting the MVII up and running:
> 
> I ordered the SCSI2SD adapter and it has come in, the plan is to use it as the system disk on the MVII.
> 
> The hobbyist VMS PAKS have arrived and I was able to download the VMS 7.3 iso, not sure what I can do with it since I think it must be burned to a 512 byte sector CD.

Burn it to a CD.  Shouldn't be anything complex here.

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> I asked if the PAKS were good for older versions of VMS, like 5.5, and was told yes they were.  We'll see about that.
> 
> The Hobbyist VMS CD I had for VMS 7.2 was found and I was able to get the old Toshiba CD drive to work on the MV 4000 using a CQD 223A.  How can I create an image of these CD's on the VAX 4000 that I could use in an emulator?
> 
> I wasn't able to get the UC07 to see the CDROM because of a bad SCSI cable, I had hoped to format the SCSI2SD using the UC07

Keep in mind that the SCSI2SD can pretend to be a CD-ROM, and can emulate up to 4 SCSI devices at one go.  No need to futz with a real drive if you don't want to...

Josh


> 
> Is it possible to use the SCSI2SD on a microPDP-11 under RT-11? I ask because of the disk size limit under RT-11.
> 
> Doug
>