[Simh] PDP-10/RP06 Disk Image Size
Rob Doyle
radioengr at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 01:07:19 EDT 2015
I'm designing an RH11 disk controller for my KS10 FPGA. I'd like to
use the SIMH data format for the media.
I noticed that an RP06 disk image from SIMH is 315,187,200 bytes.
Assuming an RP06 has 815 cylinders, 19 heads, 20 sectors (confirmed
in SIMH code) - I calculate that disk image should be 317,132,800
bytes.
If use 810 cylinders (instead of 815), I get the size of the of the
image file.
SIMH doesn't pack data: there are 128 words per sector and each
word occupies 64-bits or 8 bytes. Therefore a sector is 1024 bytes.
What's am I missing?
Rob
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