[Simh] Initializing disks under RT11 (Ken Hall)

[Ken Hall]

I'm just letting the emulator create the file.  I have three defined in the
cmd file, DL0-DL2.  Disks that are already initialized (DL0 and DL1) are
fine, but if I delete DL2 and let the emulator recreate it, I get these
errors.  So far the only way I've been able to create a working disk image
is to copy an existing one, and remove all the files.

Bob, is there anything special in your startup cmd file for the disks?  This
is what I have:

[ken at raptor Disks]$ cat rt11.cmd 
ATTACH RL0 rt11run.dsk
ATTACH RL1 rtv53_rl.dsk
ATTACH RL2 rt11dat.dsk
SET RL2 BADBLOCK
BOOT RL0

RL2 is the one I'm trying to initialize.


-----Original Message-----
From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com]
On Behalf Of Bob Supnik
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:51
To: simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] Initializing disks under RT11 (Ken Hall)

I just tried this under both RT v4 and v5.3, and it works fine on a stock
release.

However, if you either (a) fail to write the bad block table or (b) attach
an RL01-sized file to a drive that's declared to be an RL02, rather than
AUTOSIZE, RT will get very confused, and the INIT will fail.

/Bob

On 12/21/2011 12:00 PM, simh-request at trailing-edge.com wrote:
> Initializing disks under RT11 (Ken Hall)
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