[Simh] Certainly a silly question

[Craig A. Berry]

On May 4, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Marc Chametzky wrote:

> In my case, I would also have liked to have a simpler way to set up a series of disk volumes that were set up as an array of RRD40s for a CD collection I have mounted on my VAX (VMS). Right now, I'm filled up with DUA0-3, DUB0-3, DUC0-3, and DUD0-3, giving me 16 total volumes (used as 3 virtual hard drives and 13 virtual CD drives).
> 
> I think the limitation here is in the hardware devices available to VMS itself. The controllers being emulated (and thus the matching device drivers) probably didn't support more than 4 devices per controller, so that's why we're limited in this fashion.


LDdriver is available for VAX:

<http://www.digiater.nl/lddriver.html>

That would expand the number of controllers available considerably and is also a very handy way to selectively mount different disk images at different times.
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