[Simh] Infoserver software

[Brian Wheeler]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 09:47 -0600, Bruce Claremont wrote:
> Why not use SimH VAX as the disk server?  Simpler.
> 

Yeah, that would be the obvious way to go, especially if I start having
hardware trouble.  I was mostly hoping for something a little lighter in
terms of resources on my linux rather than running a full vms stack +
clustering.

Plus, who doesn't enjoy a challenge?

Brian


> At 08:27 AM 10/7/2011, you wrote:
> > Is it possible to run the infoserver software on simh?  I've got a
> > pair
> > of real VAXen running as a cluster and I'd like to provide more disk
> > to
> > them via my linux boxes. 
> > 
> > I've looked at the infoserver distribution on freeware v8 and it
> > looks
> > like two of the disk images are blank (infoserver 100/150
> > {disk,tape}
> > function) and the infoserver/vms v3.5 won't boot on simh.  That's
> > not
> > terribly surprising since simh isn't a microvax 3100/10 derivative.
> > I
> > modified the boot rom so it would look for IS1000_V35.SYS (which
> > seemed
> > to be the only bit of executable code in the infoserver
> > distribution)
> > and I got:
> > 
> > >>>b dub0
> > (BOOT/R5:0 DUB0
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >   2..
> > -DUB0
> >   1..0..
> > 
> > 
> > ?50 SCB2NDINT, DUB0
> > ?06 HLT INST
> >         PC = 00000C1A
> > >>>
> > 
> > 
> > Is there any documentation on the LAD/LAST protocols anywhere?  If
> > there
> > was documentation available it might make an interesting project...
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Brian
> > 
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