[Simh] VAX 8600: Can't boot Quasijarus (tape or disk)

[Dario Niedermann]

Hello! I'm running "VAX 8600 simulator V4.0-0 Beta" (git commit id:
c8a420ad) on a Linux/x86_64 host. I've installed 4.3BSD Quasijarus
on an empty RA90-sized disk image, following the instructions at:

	<http://www.tavi.co.uk/unixhistory/quasijarus.html>

But I could never get the VAX 8600 emulator to boot...

>From TQ0, attached to the .tap file provided at the site, emulator says
"Command not allowed" when I give 'boot tq0'. 'sho tq all' returns
"Controller is not initialized", while 'sho tq' outputs:

------------------------------------------------------------------
TQ      TU81 (180MB), address=2013F940-2013F943, no vector, BR5, 4
units
  TQ0   attached to /home/ndr/lib/emu/quastape.tap, read only,
write locked, SIMH format
        capacity=188MB
------------------------------------------------------------------

Is this due to the .tap file being (probably) made with the
MicroVAX 3900 emulator?

Issuing 'boot rq0', the emulator's output is:

------------------------------------------------------------------
Loading boot code from internal vmb.exe
loading boot
ra(0,0,0,34): bad adaptor number
boot failed
------------------------------------------------------------------

Is it because I used the MicroVAX 3900 emulator to install BSD on the
virtual ra0?

TIA for any help...


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