[Simh] Unix SYS III on SIMH

[Jason Stevens]

Oh ok, I'm a little slow ;)


Sadly neither made any difference... but it was certainly worth a shot!

The pack will be labeled p0001.
Hard tape error -- abort
read = 0 in block 7000




On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Andru Luvisi <luvisi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Jason Stevens <neozeed at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hmm so I changed the x00's to xff's and it just hangs at the boot..
> [snip]
>
> Sorry, I wasn't clear.  It's x00's for the end of file markers, but
> xff's for the end of media.  Try something like this:
>
>  ...
>  add_file("tape1_set1_file5.dat", 5120);
>  end_file();
>  add_file("tape1_set1_file6.dat", 5120);
>  end_file();
>  end_tape(); # Here's the difference.
>
>  sub end_file {
>   print "\x00\x00\x00\x00";
>  }
>
>  # New procedure.
>  sub end_tape {
>   print "\xff\xff\xff\xff";
>  }
>  ...
>
> It that doesn't work, try deleting the very last end_file().  It if
> still doesn't work, then I'm out of ideas.
>
> Best of luck,
> Andru
>