And the solution is... a stock RT-11 distribution only has <two> RL drives.
; SYSTEM GENERATION OPTION
.IIF NDF DL$UN, DL$UN == 2 ;NUMBER OF UNITS SUPPORTED
.IIF GT DL$UN-4, DL$UN == 4 ;CAN'T HAVE MORE THAN 4 UNITS
.IIF LE DL$UN, DL$UN == 1 ;CAN'T HAVE NO UNITS
Doing <anything> on DL2 or DL3 ain't gonna work.
On DL1, you can init an RL02 just fine.
If you want to play with DL2 and 3, run SYSGEN.
/Bob
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:30:30 -0500
From: "Ken Hall"<kjhal...@gmail.com>
To:<simh@trailing-edge.com>
Subject: [Simh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something
Strange with RK05" chain
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I've played with RT11 on and off over the years, but the one thing I've
never been able to do is properly initialize an empty disk. If I create a
DL2: for example, and try to run initialize on it, I get back:
.dir dl2:
?DIR-F-Error reading directory
.init dl2:
DL2:/Initialize; Are you sure? YES
?DUP-F-Size function failed
This seems similar to the issues Henk Gooijen has been having with RK05's,
and it's been so long since I've dealt with the real hardware I don't recall
exactly how this is supposed to work, but it seems to me it should just
"work".
Has anyone found a solution to this?
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