On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > On 2017-02-06 19:38, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > > Rather than that, please just give the latest github code a spin to > > > see if the > > > ODS1 volumes you have at your fingertips are correctly recognized > > > when they are attached to a RP or RQ device. > > > > What can I expect to see? I mean, my images are already the correct > > size anyway, so the sizing should not result in any difference than today... > > I'll try it when I get a little time. Maybe this weekend. I guess it's > > time I updated my version of simh anyway. :-) > > While processing the ATTACH command, if it detects a particular file system it > announces what it has found and if auto sizing is enabled and the disk size is > smaller than the file system size, then the disk size is expanded to allow > access to the full useful extent of the disk container by the simulated > system. > If auto sizing is disabled, then a message explaining that data access errors > are likely with the current size of the disk. > > > > Bringing this functionality to other disk types is a project for > > > another day and might not provide much value since most, if not all, > > > of them had their last track written with BAD144 data. > > > > Well, in the case of ODS, the code should work fine on any kind of > > disk, so there is really no reason to limit it to some controllers. > > It is not a about a specifically limiting the functionality. The code is > built into > the sim_disk functionality which currently is only used by the RQ and RP > devices. > > The project for another day is to either make the existing file system > checking > flexible enough to work for both the sim_disk using code and the legacy > sim_fio code, OR to convert the RL and HK devices to use sim_disk.
Another day has come and the RL and HK devices now have the file system validation support for auto sizing also. - Mark _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
