Re: SerialDisk (Re: LINCtape images)

2021-11-04 Thread David Gesswein via cctalk
On Tue, Nov 02, 2021 at 03:12:05PM +0100, Christian Corti wrote: > On Tue, 2 Nov 2021, Vincent Slyngstad wrote: > > Another option would be to spin the data onto LINCtape with a TD8E, then > > mount the result on the PDP-12. I think Dave is creating the images in > > the first place with either a

Re: SerialDisk (Re: LINCtape images)

2021-11-02 Thread Vincent Slyngstad via cctalk
On 11/2/2021 7:12 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 2021, Vincent Slyngstad wrote: https://github.com/drovak/os8diskserver The current version should have no problems with the 8/I or with the PDP-12. (Maybe even the straight-8, but I can't remember checking if it is "increme

Re: SerialDisk (Re: LINCtape images)

2021-11-02 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Tue, 2 Nov 2021, Vincent Slyngstad wrote: Another option would be to spin the data onto LINCtape with a TD8E, then mount the result on the PDP-12. I think Dave is creating the images in the first place with either a TD8E, or possibly a custom controller. I think he used a custom controller

Re: SerialDisk (Re: LINCtape images)

2021-11-02 Thread Vincent Slyngstad via cctalk
On 11/2/2021 2:42 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2021, Vincent Slyngstad wrote: There seem to be a couple of formats that were frequently used, and a third lesser used format.  One of the issues is that you have to go into maintenance mode, as far as I can tell, to determi

SerialDisk (Re: LINCtape images)

2021-11-02 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Fri, 29 Oct 2021, Vincent Slyngstad wrote: There seem to be a couple of formats that were frequently used, and a third lesser used format. One of the issues is that you have to go into maintenance mode, as far as I can tell, to determine the size of the block you just read into memory. It