[Simh] SIMH tape images to real tapes

[Larry Baker]

Fixed!  You can download the replacement SIMH2MTD.EXE(_ALPHA)'s from our FTP site, ftpext.usgs.gov.

Larry Baker
US Geological Survey
650-329-5608
baker at usgs.gov




On May 23, 2014, at 11:06 PM, Larry Baker wrote:

> Well, I think it is my SIMH2MTD converter that is the problem.  I padded writes to a WORD (2-byte) boundary.  MTD is expecting padding to a 4-byte boundary -- and it is pickier than TAPELOOK!  (I added reading MTD images in TAPELOOK and then used the same login in SIMH2MTD -- sort of).
> 
> I'll get back to you.
> 
> Larry Baker
> US Geological Survey
> 650-329-5608
> baker at usgs.gov
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On May 23, 2014, at 10:55 PM, Larry Baker wrote:
> 
>> It turns out the debugging output is written to Fortran unit 3, not to the terminal (I don't remember why).  So it is in a file called FOR003.DAT.  You probably have one too.
>> 
>> The error is the first "DKGET":
>> 
>>> ---> Enter DKGET (       1,indx,isize,eof,ierr)
>>> --->  67 = DKGET (fcb(LUN),   1, 2062,  F,  67)
>> 
>> 
>> Now I have to figure out why.
>> 
>> Larry Baker
>> US Geological Survey
>> 650-329-5608
>> baker at usgs.gov
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On May 23, 2014, at 10:41 PM, Larry Baker wrote:
>> 
>>> I hacked MTD to allow the NL: device instead of a tape drive.  I'm getting the same error you did:
>>> 
>>>> BAKER TONGA> mtd [-.SIMH2MTD.MTD_TAPE_IMAGES]RSTSE_V10_1_INSTALL_SEP10_1992.MTD nl:/noappend
>>>> 
>>>> MTD -- Begin transfer.
>>>> 
>>>> MTD -- Error reading disk file.
>>> 
>>> Now at least I can figure out why.
>>> 
>>> Larry Baker
>>> US Geological Survey
>>> 650-329-5608
>>> baker at usgs.gov
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On May 23, 2014, at 10:14 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, 23 May 2014, Larry Baker wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> What do you mean by that?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> My tape drive appears to be malfunctioning.
>>>> 
>>>>> Larry Baker
>>>>> US Geological Survey
>>>>> 650-329-5608
>>>>> baker at usgs.gov
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On May 23, 2014, at 9:59 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Fri, 23 May 2014, Larry Baker wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Your command is different -- last time you had /noappend.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Oops.  Anyways I narrowed the problem down the tape drive being funny.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Larry Baker
>>>>>>> US Geological Survey
>>>>>>> 650-329-5608
>>>>>>> baker at usgs.gov
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On May 23, 2014, at 8:42 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 23 May 2014, Larry Baker wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I uploaded mtd_debug.exe to our ftp site.  Rename the original mtd_save.exe, then rename mtd_debug.exe to mtd.exe and try agin.  Maybe that will give us a clue.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> MOYA::CSMELOSKY$ mtd rsts-conv.tap mua0:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> MTD -- Begin transfer.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> MTD -- Error spacing files.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Different!
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Larry Baker
>>>>>>>>> US Geological Survey
>>>>>>>>> 650-329-5608
>>>>>>>>> baker at usgs.gov
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Cory Smelosky
>>>>>>>> http://gewt.net Personal stuff
>>>>>>>> http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Cory Smelosky
>>>>>> http://gewt.net Personal stuff
>>>>>> http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Cory Smelosky
>>>> http://gewt.net Personal stuff
>>>> http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
>>> 
>> 
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