[Simh] Initializing disks under RT11

Jacob Goense dugo at xs4all.nl
Tue Dec 20 19:41:18 EST 2011


> Anyone know how to initialize a disk under RT-11 with simh?
>
> I can format and initialize RK05 images, but INITIALIZE fails on RL01 with
> "?DUP-F-Size function failed".

Assuming
ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Dennis_v6/v6doc.gz
is a RK05 image:

root at mercury:/museum/fuzzball/a# cat 5.ini
set ptr dis
set ptp dis
set lpt enabled
set dz DISABLED
set RK ENABLE
set HK dis
set rx dis
set rp dis
set tm dis
set tq dis
set xq dis
set tti 8b
set tto 8b
set cpu 11/73 128K
set rl0 writeenabled
set rl0 rl02
attach rl0 rl0.dsk
set rl0 badblock
SET RK0 WRITEENABLED
ATTACH RK0 v6root
boot rl0
root at mercury:/museum/fuzzball/a# ls -l v6root
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048000 Dec 20 23:29 v6root
root at mercury:/museum/fuzzball/a# pdp11 5.ini

PDP-11 simulator V3.8-1
Disabling CR
Overwrite last track? [N]

RT-11FB  V05.03

.INITIALIZE/NOQUERY RK:

.DIR RK:


 0 Files, 0 Blocks
 4762 Free blocks

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