[Simh] Getting rsxs to run on the pdp11 emulator

[Rhialto]

On Tue 03 Mar 2015 at 11:00:15 -0500, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
> I've attached an installation log from those above mentioned tapes
> done on SIMH just a short while ago. As can be seen they are Y2K

Ah, with a quick looks I see 2 differences: you use a different tape
device (I used ms1: -- I had the 2 tapes mounted at the same time), and
you specify csr and vector numbers. I'll try later which of the two
makes the difference.

Part of my config:

attach tm0 BB-J0830-01.M01_RSX11M+_V4.6_1999.tap
attach tm1 BB-J0830-01.L01_RSX11M+_V4.6_BRU_1999.tap

and I found some logs of what happened for me before
(with a bit of cut and paste to insert a recent output of /dev).

$ ./pdp11 rsx.ini 

PDP-11 simulator V4.0-0 Beta        git commit id: af713b78
Disabling XQ
sim> boot tm


RSX-11M/RSX-11M-PLUS Standalone Copy System V04


RSX-11M/RSX-11M-PLUS Standalone Configuration and Disk Sizing Program

Valid switches are:
        /CSR=nnnnnn to change the default device CSR
        /VEC=nnn to change the default device vector
        /FOR=n to change the default magtape formatter number
        /DEV to list all default device CSR and vectors


Enter first device: /dev

Device      CSR     Vector   CSR Status
------     ------   ------   ----------
DB         176700    254     Not Present
DK         177404    220     Not Present
DL         174400    160     Not Present
DM         177440    210     Not Present
DP         176714    300     Not Present
DR         176300    150     Not Present
DU         172150    154     Present
MM FOR=0   172440    330     Not Present
MS         172522    224     Present
MT         160000    320     Not Present
MU         174500    260     Not Present

Enter first device: ms1:

Enter second device: du0:

Hit RETURN and enter date and time as 'TIM HH:MM MM/DD/YY'

>run bru
>
BRU>ms1: du0:
BRU -- *WARNING* -- Tape label error
I/O error code -3

BRU -- *WARNING* -- Volume not a backup tape

BRU -- *WARNING* -- Rewind error
I/O error code -3

BRU - Mount Tape 1 on MS1:

-Olaf.
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___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert  -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for
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