[Simh] Disk info request

Henry Bent henry.r.bent at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 14:12:09 EST 2016


Here's /etc/disktab from Digital Unix 4.0D, which has info about many of
the RZ drives as well as some of the RA drives.

http://pastebin.com/XNcjEeR7

-Henry

On 10 March 2016 at 14:01, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:31 PM, <dundas at caltech.edu> wrote:
>
>> The utility of such a list is great.  Various folks have tried to develop
>> such lists over the years, with varying success and degrees of fidelity
>> and accuracy.
>>
> ​Good point, but you might be able to start with something that has been
> around for a long time.
>
> 4.X BSD has the disktab db in section 5 of the man pages, check out:
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=disktab&sektion=5
>
> Seems like that data has been vetted a bit (at least for systems from the
> late '70-early 2000's)
> Source for NET2  on Warren's archives take a look for
> usr/src/etc/etc.*/*tab*
>
> The vax directory has: r[ab][68][01], rd53, rm[08][035], rp0[67] plus a
> few more. They also have a few more manufacturers in other directories. It might
> be interesting to see simh use the same DB.
>
> Clem
>
>>
>
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