[Simh] RAUSER limit, connecting to physical devices

[Zane H. Healy]

At 5:36 PM -0800 12/9/05, Shawn Hicks wrote:
>The SCSI tapes: We have about 30 5GB 8mm tapes which were managed by a
>product called Computer Associates Archiver. I attempted to attach
>/dev/st0 on the linux system to the TS device, and VMS tried to use it.
>I discovered that there must be a tape in the drive to boot SIMH with
>this configuration. Unfortunately I encountered I/O errors and
>complaints about block size. I attempted to dd the first megabyte of the
>tape and got the same errors. I haven't resolved the source of this, but

A couple of things, SIMH doesn't support attaching a physical tape 
drive.  Also, how old are those tapes?  You might want to consider 
having those tapes read professionally if they're very old.  8mm 
tapes are a rather unreliable storage medium.

			Zane


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