> On Aug 5, 2016, at 1:42 PM, Douglas Taylor <dj.tayl...@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. > > 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 >
