[Simh] Certainly a silly question

[Stafford Winters]

On 5/4/2012 11:50 AM, 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.

I'd suggest creating a very large volume with RAUSER and housing each of 
your CD images on that large volume and just use LD to create units 
within VMS to make them accessible.