[Simh] SIMH tape images to real tapes

[Cory Smelosky]

On Sat, 24 May 2014, Larry Baker wrote:

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

Thanks!

> Larry Baker
> US Geological Survey
> 650-329-5608
> baker at usgs.gov
>
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> On May 23, 2014, at 11:06 PM, Larry Baker wrote:
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>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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>> On May 23, 2014, at 10:55 PM, Larry Baker wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> On May 23, 2014, at 10:41 PM, Larry Baker wrote:
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>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> On May 23, 2014, at 10:14 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
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>>>>> 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
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> Cory Smelosky
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>>>>>
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>>>>> Cory Smelosky
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