> On Jan 24, 2018, at 2:17 PM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > >> On Jan 24, 2018, at 5:07 PM, Mark Pizzolato <m...@infocomm.com> wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Zane Healy wrote: >>> What type/size of tapes does the VAX emulation support? I was looking >>> through the doc’s and it wasn’t obvious to me. Is there a size limit? >> >> How big is your disk? :-) >> >> Really, there is no actual limit on total tape size, since the data format >> is >> only concerned with tape records which are then processed sequentially. > > Then again, SIMH supports limiting the emulated tape size. The SIMH VAX > document shows that it uses this feature: the tape units can be set to a > specific size limit, or 0 for unlimited. The same is true for various other > emulations; I see the PDP11 has the same sort of thing, and for example its > TMSCP controller defaults to 98 MB (TK50 size). > > paul >
How do I set the tape size to 0? I’d say that’s a stupid question, but I’ve had very little luck finding documentation on the options. Though I won’t rule out that I might be blind. :-) While looking for the answer to that, I may have found a better solution. It looks like I can create a 50GB disk. If I can do that, I can move my Alpha disks over to SIMH. That would actually be my preference. The two disks I’m the most concerned with are ODS-2. The other two are ODS-5, and I think there are some filenames from OpenSource software that will have issues with ODS-2, but I can selectively move the data I want backed up to an ODS-2 disk. The joke is, my 50GB disk only has about 8GB of data on it, one of the 36GB drives is the big one at about 26GB. Zane _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
