[Simh] DEC floppy disk interleave questions

[Alan Frisbie]

On 07/16/2015 05:40 AM, Hans-Ulrich Hölscher wrote:

 > if you want to image your disks and floppies for use with simh,
 > there's an easy way to do it.  All you need is a (Micro-)VAX
 > having the appropriate drive(s) running VMS.
 > MOUNT/FOREIGN <device-name>
 > COPY/LOG <device-name> yourimagename.img
 > DISMOUNT <device-name>
 > Don't worry about the error message at the end of the COPY process
 > - that's normal, just that copy discovers the end of media.
 > You get an image containing all the blocks of your device in
 > logical order - VMS will take care of the device details.

That sounds like the really easy way to do it.   Does it copy
track 0 of RX01/02 floppies?

I finally got a MicroVAX 3300 up and running again.   Most of
my RF3x drives seem to have died while in storage.  Now I have
to see if any of the RX02 drives will still work.

 > Will you make your images available?

Absolutely!   I'm still working on the 9-track tapes, after a
several-week pause due to my Alpha XP1000 dying and me taking
time out for a couple of all-weekend endurance races (24 Hours
of LeMons -- the fruit, not the town in France).

I plan to put all my DEC media images on CDs so I can easily
make copies.   Each tape/floppy image will be accompanied by a
text file with the label and other information, and a .JPG photo
of the media and label.   I've done about 300 tapes so far, of
which 82 are DEC.   I have another 300 or so to do.   I should
be done in a couple of months.

Alan Frisbie