[Simh] Simh VAX V3.9-0 Problems using Init command

[Mark Pizzolato]

Hi Will,

To help answer your question, please:

1)      Provide the output of SHOW VERSION from the sim> prompt of your running simulator

2)      Provide the complete configuration file you are running the simulator with

3)      After you get the "%INIT-F-MEDOFL, medium is offline" messages enter ^E and type SHOW RQ and SHOW DL at the sim> prompt and provide that output here.

Thanks.


-          Mark

From: Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of will kranz
Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 8:04 AM
To: simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: [Simh] Simh VAX V3.9-0 Problems using Init command


I'm currently running OpenVMS 073.

I did this a week ago on a different machine (not accessable today) and it worked fine.
I have a bootable vms073.dsk image, and I created two empty files per below to be initialized.
in vax.ini I had:
attach RQ0  vms073.dsk
attach RQ3  rx50.dsk
attach RL0  rl01.dsk

Then started emulate and booted CPU followed by:
b DUA0
works fine, and I log in.

last week I believe I just did following to create bare disk image files just containing system files:
init DUA3: VRX50
init DLA0: VRL01

This week the init fails, and I am told "%INIT-F-MEDOFL, medium is offline"

but the result for "sh dev" for these devices is:
SIMH1$DUA3:             Online               0
SIMH1$DLA0:             Online               0

I am puzzled as to why this doesn't work now.  What am I missing here?
Thanks in advance.

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