Re: [Simh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something Strange with RK05" chain

2020-02-12 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 4:22 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2020, at 5:37 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > > > Recent versions of the simh PDP11 will correctly auto size (RL01 vs RL02) > > disk > > containers that have or don’t have the DEC STD 144 bad block table at the > > end

Re: [Simh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something Strange with RK05" chain

2020-02-12 Thread Paul Koning
> On Feb 12, 2020, at 5:37 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > Recent versions of the simh PDP11 will correctly auto size (RL01 vs RL02) > disk containers that have or don’t have the DEC STD 144 bad block table at > the end of the drive as long as the disk image has an RT11 file system on it. >

Re: [Simh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something Strange with RK05" chain

2020-02-12 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Gooijen Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 1:39 PM To: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something Strange with RK05" chain Yes, rt11dat and rt11run looks like RL01 “disks”, and rtv53_rl.dsk is an RL02 (and IIRC the distribution disk).

Re: [Simh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something Strange with RK05" chain

2020-02-12 Thread Henk Gooijen
mh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something Strange with RK05" chain See below … Van: Ken Hall<mailto:kjhal...@gmail.com> Verzonden: woensdag 12 februari 2020 18:30 Aan: simh@trailing-edge.com<mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com> Onderwerp: [Simh] Initializing disks (tr

Re: [Simh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something Strange with RK05" chain

2020-02-12 Thread Ken Hall
range with RK05" chain See below … Van: Ken Hall <mailto:kjhal...@gmail.com> Verzonden: woensdag 12 februari 2020 18:30 Aan: simh@trailing-edge.com <mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com> Onderwerp: [Simh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something Strange with

Re: [Simh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something Strange with RK05" chain

2020-02-12 Thread Henk Gooijen
See below … Van: Ken Hall<mailto:kjhal...@gmail.com> Verzonden: woensdag 12 februari 2020 18:30 Aan: simh@trailing-edge.com<mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com> Onderwerp: [Simh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something Strange with RK05" chain I’ve played with RT11 on

Re: [Simh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something Strange with RK05" chain

2020-02-12 Thread Tim Shoppa
The DL handler supports both RL01 and RL02 or a mix of them. I believe "DUP-F-Size function failed" means that DL handler special function 373 (SF.SIZ) was unable to determine the size (RL01 vs RL02) of the volume... will delve into the driver source and see why this might not be working with

Re: [Simh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something Strange with RK05" chain

2020-02-12 Thread Paul Koning
> On Feb 12, 2020, at 12:30 PM, Ken Hall wrote: > > 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: >

[Simh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something Strange with RK05" chain

2020-02-12 Thread Ken Hall
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