> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob
Jarratt
> Sent: 14 August 2016 11:55
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Imaging and Emulating Rainbow
>
> I have a Rainbow 100+ with a working hard disk. I want to image the disk
> before it fails and then emulate the Rainbow. The disk is an RD51 and
> appears to have 4 partitions on it.
>
>
>
> For imaging my first thought is to put the disk into a MicroVAX II, net
boot the
> MicroVAX into VMS and do a BACKUP/PHYSICAL, copying the image to a
> SIMH tap file. There shouldn't be any issues with this I assume?
>
Oh dear. VMS would not let me MOUNT/FOREIGN, it said:
%MOUNT-F-FORMAT, invalid media format
So I couldn't mount it to do the BACKUP/PHYSICAL.
What options do I have to image this disk?
Regards
Rob
