[Simh] Size of disks created by Simulator
priya chincholikar
priyachinc at gmail.com
Tue Nov 12 07:22:26 EST 2013
Hi,
Yes, I created two 30 GB disks.
Should have tried the suggestions before reading too much :p Anyways Thanks
for the help :)
-Priya
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Bucher, Andreas (Andreas)** CTR ** <
andreas.bucher at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> that's quite easy:
>
> 1)
> Either in the SIMH console or in the VAX.INI file used to configure your
> simulation, use the following commands:
>
> {from VAX.INI}
>
> ; This virtual machine has 256M memory (cpu extend to enable mem >64M)
> ; note: set cpu extend is not needed, as it is implicitely included in the
> 256m setting
> ;set cpu extend
> set cpu 256m
>
> ; Define disk drive types. (RAUSER=sizeMB is variable size)
> set rq0 ra92
> set rq1 rauser=2000
> set rq2 cdrom
> ;set rq3 cdrom
> set rq3 rauser=20000
> ; the latter will define DUA3: in VMS as ~20GB = ~40Mio blocks
>
> ; Attach defined drives to local files
> attach rq0 d0.dsk
> attach rq1 d1.dsk
> attach rq3 d3.dsk
> ; d3.dsk will be the ~20GB image file of DUA3:
>
> ; Attach the CD-ROM to its image file (read-only)
> attach -r rq2 ..\images\vms072.iso
>
> 2)
> then boot up the system:
> simh> boot cpu
> (or put this command in the VAX.INI, and launch the VAX emulator)
>
> 3)
> Once VMS has loaded, you need to initialize the newly created disk:
> $ init dua3: test
>
> This may take a while, as now, the d3.dsk container file on the host is
> written, as VMS initializes the file system inside it.
>
> 4)
> Next, mount it:
> $ mount dua3: test
>
> 5)
> If you list your devices now, you should see about 40M Blocks = 20GB
>
> $ show dev d
>
> Device Device Error Volume Free
> Trans Mnt
> Name Status Count Label Blocks
> Count Cnt
> VXAB03$DUA0: Mounted 0 SYS1 762768
> 283 1
> VXAB03$DUA1: Mounted 0 DAT1 3797752
> 1 1
> VXAB03$DUA2: Online 0
> VXAB03$DUA3: Mounted alloc 0 TEST 39079352
> 1 1
>
> 6) Your 20GB disk is now usable:
> $ dir dua3:[000000]
>
> Directory DUA3:[000000]
>
> 000000.DIR;1 BACKUP.SYS;1 BADBLK.SYS;1 BADLOG.SYS;1
> BITMAP.SYS;1 CONTIN.SYS;1 CORIMG.SYS;1 INDEXF.SYS;1
> SECURITY.SYS;1 VOLSET.SYS;1
>
> Total of 10 files.
>
> 7) The next time you boot um VMS and need this disk, you only have to
> mount it.
>
>
> Hope this helps !
>
> Kind Regards,
> Andreas
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-
> > edge.com] On Behalf Of priya chincholikar
> > Sent: Montag, 11. November 2013 12:39
> > To: Bruce Claremont
> > Cc: simh at trailing-edge.com
> > Subject: Re: [Simh] Size of disks created by Simulator
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I understand that sim> SET RQ1 RAUSER=4096 will give me 4096 MB space.
> > I want to create atleast 20GB disk size.
> > I read that
> > "RAUSER is a "user specified" disk; the user can specify the size of
> > the disk in either MB (1000000 bytes) or logical block numbers (LBN's,
> > 512 bytes each). The minimum size is 5MB; the maximum size is 2GB
> > without extended file support, 1TB with extended file support "
> > So that means its possible to create a 20 GB disk.. How do I proceed ?
> >
> > - Priya
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Bruce Claremont
> > <Bruce.Claremont at migrationspecialties.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The easiest way to increase the disk size under VMS is to create
> > new disks, then use BACKUP /IMAGE to move transfer the data from old to
> > new.
> >
> >
> > At 05:52 AM 11/8/2013, priya chincholikar wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a question about the disks created during
> > simulation.
> > I noticed that 3 disks get attached when we run the
> > simulator for the first time.
> >
> > [root at localhost data]# ls
> > cd.iso d0.dsk d1.dsk d2.dsk ka655x.bin nvram.bin
> >
> > ford/system$ sho dev d
> >
> > Device Device Error Volume
> > Free
> >
> > Name Status Count Label
> > Blocks
> > DNFS0: Online 0
> > FORD$DUA0: Mounted 0 FORD
> > 2371878
> > FORD$DUA1: Mounted alloc 0 DATA1
> > 2940579
> > FORD$DUA2: Mounted alloc 0 DATA2
> > 2940579
> > FORD$DUA3: Online 0
> >
> >
> > Is there a way to increase the size of any these disks ?
> >
> > - Priya
> >
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