[Simh] RT-11 bootable tape

[Sander Reiche]

Indeed the tape booting works flawlessly with RT-11 V5.7 under SimH.
Interesting!
Thanks Tim!

regards,

Sander


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Sander Reiche <sander.reiche at gmail.com>wrote:

> But it does seems to work in e11. Could be a hack, but I'll try V05.07
> tomorrow.
>
> re,
>
> Sander
> On Nov 5, 2013 10:56 PM, "Shoppa, Tim" <tshoppa at wmata.com> wrote:
>
>>  It has been many years but I think there was a problem with the tape
>> boot blocks in 5.6 that was fixed in 5.7.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tim.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:
>> simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] *On Behalf Of *Sander Reiche
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 05, 2013 10:14 AM
>> *To:* simh at trailing-edge.com
>> *Subject:* [Simh] RT-11 bootable tape
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> Trying to get an actual scsi tape running on a CQD220A on real iron(tm),
>> but I'm still trying to figure things out. I was originally using
>> Ersatz-11, but I though I'd give it a go on SimH.
>>
>>
>>
>> When booted from a bootable simulated TK50(tk50.tap), it consistently
>> halts on trying to run MDUP.Mx to further the "installation" of RT-11 from
>> said tape.
>>
>>
>>
>> Following a transcript:
>>
>>
>>
>> PDP-11 simulator V3.9-0
>>
>> sim> att rl0 rtv5rl.06
>>
>> sim> att tq0 tk50.tap
>>
>> TQ: creating new file
>>
>> sim> b rl
>>
>>
>>
>> RT-11FB  V05.06
>>
>>
>>
>> .TYPE V5USER.TXT
>>
>>
>>
>>                                    RT-11 V5.6
>>
>>
>>
>>     Installation  of  RT-11  Version  5.6 is complete and you are now
>> running
>>
>>     RT-11 from your system volume.
>>
>>
>>
>> .R MSCPCK
>>
>> ?MSCPCK-I-MU0-TK50  FW Rev Level is 005/HW Rev Level is 001
>>
>> ?MSCPCK-W-TQK50 controller below FW Rev 4/HW Rev 6
>>
>>
>>
>> .ass mu0 kit
>>
>>
>>
>> .ass dl0 bin
>>
>>
>>
>> .$@mub
>>
>>
>>
>> .$Load Bin,Kit
>>
>>
>>
>> .$Ini/Que/Vol/File:Bin:MBOOT.BOT Kit:
>>
>> MU0:/Initialize; Are you sure? Y
>>
>> Volume ID? HU21J
>>
>> Owner?     MU 1/1
>>
>>
>>
>> .$Cop Bin:MSBOOT.BOT Kit:/Pos:-1
>>
>>  Files copied:
>>
>> BIN:MSBOOT.BOT to KIT:MSBOOT.BOT
>>
>>
>>
>> .$Cop Bin:MDUP.AI Kit:/Pos:-1
>>
>>  Files copied:
>>
>> BIN:MDUP.AI    to KIT:MDUP.AI
>>
>>
>>
>> .$Cop Bin:MDUP.MM Kit:/Pos:-1
>>
>>  Files copied:
>>
>> BIN:MDUP.MM    to KIT:MDUP.MM
>>
>>
>>
>> .$Cop Bin:MDUP.MS Kit:/Pos:-1
>>
>>  Files copied:
>>
>> BIN:MDUP.MS    to KIT:MDUP.MS
>>
>>
>>
>> .$Cop Bin:MDUP.MT Kit:/Pos:-1
>>
>>  Files copied:
>>
>> BIN:MDUP.MT    to KIT:MDUP.MT
>>
>>
>>
>> .$Cop Bin:MDUP.MU Kit:/Pos:-1
>>
>>  Files copied:
>>
>> BIN:MDUP.MU    to KIT:MDUP.MU
>>
>>
>>
>> ................<snip>..................
>>
>>
>>
>> .$Cop Bin:INDEX.IDX Kit:/Pos:-1
>>
>>  Files copied:
>>
>> BIN:INDEX.IDX  to KIT:INDEX.IDX
>>
>>
>>
>> .$Unload Bin,Kit
>>
>>
>>
>> sim> sh tq
>>
>> TQ, TK50 (94MB), address=17774500-17774503, no vector, 4 units
>>
>>   TQ0, attached to tk50.tap, write enabled, SIMH format, capacity=98MB
>>
>>   TQ1, not attached, write enabled, SIMH format, capacity=98MB
>>
>>   TQ2, not attached, write enabled, SIMH format, capacity=98MB
>>
>>   TQ3, not attached, write enabled, SIMH format, capacity=98MB
>>
>> sim> b tq
>>
>>
>>
>> .MSBOOT V05.07
>>
>> *MDUP.MU
>>
>>
>>
>> Trap stack push abort, PC: 062462 (ADD (R1)+,52040(R2))
>>
>> sim>
>>
>>
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>>
>>
>> regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Sander Reiche
>>
>
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