[Simh] RRD40 emulation problem

Kevin Handy kth at srv.net
Thu Apr 9 10:54:37 EDT 2009


Mike Duffy wrote:
> Not too long ago, I modified SIMH to directly access a physical host CD 
> drive, in order to eliminate the need to make a disk image before using a 
> CD.  (Migration Specialties asked me to do this, with the intention of 
> donating it back to the SIMH community.  We've supplied a copy of the source 
> to be evaluated by Mr. Supnik, but have not heard anything back yet.)
>   
This code is not necessary for Linux (maybe most Unix OS's).
You can attach to an actual drive by just pointing to /dev/cdrom
(or whatever name it comes up as).



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