[Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

[Johnny Billquist]

Hi.

On 2017-05-07 21:30, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
> Thank you very much.  For future reference is there a simh to RSX (or
> any other OS for that matter) conversion chart for the various devices?
> It would be quite handy.

I'm not aware of any. This have always been a bit of a problem in 
general, as the actual hardware have other names than the device driver 
names, and in some cases the device driver names are different in 
different DEC OSes.
But since I think most people should not try and play around with odd 
disks nowadays anyway, you mostly only needs the MSCP disks, which is DU 
in all DEC OSes, as far as I can remember (except for Unix derivatives).

simh is a different (new) system, with yet a different naming scheme, 
which further complicates things.

simh seem to have mostly adopted the Unix driver names for the hardware 
devices. :-)

Trying to create a list, while possible, is some work, since DEC had 
lots of types of devices...

Start with manuals and hardware documentation. Try to figure out what 
device simh pretends, and then read the DEC documentation based on what 
the actual device was called at DEC.

	Johnny

>
> Thanks again,
> Ray
>
> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
>
>     On 2017-05-07 21:05, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
>
>         Hello everyone,
>         I am trying to do my first installation and sysgen of RSX-11M+
>         (actually
>         first of any RSX-11!) and I am follow the instructions at
>         http://www.9track.net/pdp11/rsx4_sysgen
>         <http://www.9track.net/pdp11/rsx4_sysgen> and I am having
>         problems right
>         out of the gate. When I try to copy the baseline system this is
>         what I get:
>
>
>     [...]
>
>     Whatever instructions you are reading are wrong then.
>
>     How about just test that /DEV switch which is mentioned, and you'd
>     get a list of what devices are available.
>
>     MSCP disks (rq and ra) are named DU, not DB. DB is RP04/05/06 disks.
>
>     That said, MSCP disks are good, since then you can use any size on
>     the disk.
>     However, I'd also set it up as an 11/93, and not 11/73.
>
>             Johnny
>
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>
>


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Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol