[Simh] Physical disk access

[Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm]

On Monday, September 29, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> Is it possible for SIMH to use a SCSI disk directly under linux? such as
> /dev/sg1 ?
> 
> What I want to accomplish is to install RT-11 under SIMH and then transfer
> that installation to a physical PDP-11/73 with a SCSI-controller.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience doing this?

The latest codebase at https://github.com/simh/simh/archive/master.zip has support for RAW disk device access on Linux.

I haven't done exactly what you're suggesting (moving a disk from a virtual to a physical machine), but there is no reason it shouldn't work.

- Mark