> On Feb 12, 2020, at 12:30 PM, Ken Hall <kjhal...@gmail.com> 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:
> ?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?
I don't see that, at least not with RK05:
RT-11FB V02C-02
.
Simulation stopped, PC: 155450 (JSR PC,142336)
sim> att rk1 newrk.dsk
RK: creating new file
sim> c
R PIP
*RK1:/Z
RK1:/Z ARE YOU SURE ?Y
*^C
.
paul
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