[Simh] Getting a true Vax disk over to SIMH?

[Zane H. Healy]

At 8:52 PM -0500 1/8/06, Dr Robert Young wrote:
>I have access to a "true" Vax, and would like to move over several 
>entire disks (2 -4Gb)  to my SIMH emulator. What is the best way of 
>taking a true Vax "disk" image and getting it over? There is, of 
>course, the backup to saveset, xfer the file, and then restore to an 
>emulator's "empty" disk, but I was trying to see if there was another
>option ??

I'm not sure SIMH will support up to 4GB disks.  However, you should 
be able to simply pull the disks, hook them up to a Unix box, and use 
'dd' to copy them to a file.  I've done this with PDP-11 SCSI drives, 
and it works just fine.

		Zane


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