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

[Johnny Billquist]

All things said, though, just feel free to ask whenever there is anything.

	Johnny

On 2017-05-07 21:39, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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
>>
>>     --
>>     Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>>                                       ||  on a psychedelic trip
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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