[Simh] Raw access to disk/cdrom devices

[Zane H. Healy]

>I was thinking about how difficult it would be to add support for accessing
>physical devices from simh.  My idea was initially to add support for a
>SCSI controller in the pdp11 simulator and then add the code to have it
>talk directly to either a physical SCSI card in the host machine or to the
>individual devices.  I'm not sure how os-independent this can be, however.
>Has anyone else had any thoughts about how this could be implemented?

Under Unix is should simply be a case of doing at "ATTACH RQ0 
/dev/cdrom", however, last I checked that doesn't work for some 
reason.  Something like this can't really be os-indepentent (except 
among the Unix flavors).

			Zane

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