[Simh] Initializing disks under RT11

[Ken Hall]

Nope, still getting "size function failed".

[ken at raptor Disks]$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=5120 of=rt11dat.dsk
5120+0 records in
5120+0 records out
5242880 bytes (5.2 MB) copied, 0.0115284 s, 455 MB/s
[ken at raptor Disks]$ pdp11 rt11.cmd 

PDP-11 simulator V3.6-1
Create bad block table on last track? [N] 

RT-11FB  V05.03  

.   
initialize/noquery dl2:
?DUP-F-Size function failed

It does work for RK05 though.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Goense [mailto:dugo at xs4all.nl] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 20:31
To: Jacob Goense
Cc: Jacob Goense; Ken Hall; simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] Initializing disks under RT11

>>> 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
> [snip previous reply after misreading]
>
> Here is for the RL01.
[snip previous reply after still misreading]

Ok, that was for the RL02, sorry for again not getting your question right.
Anyway, the answer for the RL01/RL02 disks is, mind the badblocks track.

root at mercury:/museum/fuzzball/a# dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=5120
of=rl01.dsk
5120+0 records in
5120+0 records out
5242880 bytes (5.2 MB) copied, 0.0623074 s, 84.1 MB/s
root at mercury:/museum/fuzzball/a# cat 1.ini set ptr dis set ptp dis set lpt
enabled set dz DISABLED set RK dis 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 512K
attach LPT lpt.txt
set rl1 writeenabled
set rl1 rl01
attach rl1 rl01.dsk
set rl0 writeenabled
set rl0 rl02
attach rl0 rl0.dsk
set rl0 badblock
set rl1 badblock
boot rl0
root at mercury:/museum/fuzzball/a# pdp11 1.ini

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

RT-11FB  V05.03

.INITIALIZE/NOQUERY DL1:

.DIR DL1:


 0 Files, 0 Blocks
 10172 Free blocks

.