[Simh] Problem with reading tape with PDP-11 SIMH

[Timothe Litt]

On 21-May-15 14:38, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote:
> On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Timothe Litt wrote:
>> Do you build the simulator with the asynchronous (threaded) tape IO?
>> If so, do you see the failures if you don't?  (I believe that only some of the
>> drive emulations use async io; I'm not current on which do and which don't.)
> Only the TQ tape device has asynchronous I/O.
>
>> I have in progress (but not ready to release) a utility that dumps a .tap file &
>> will report on its structure.  If a dump of your tape would help, contact me
>> off-line.
> Actually, a utility which does this has existed in the simtools file for MANY years (mtdump.c).  
>
> - Mark
>
I'm aware of mtdump, which doesn't handle erase gaps and has other
limitations.



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