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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Lennert, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>According to the VAX.DOC page 13..... <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>"The type options can be used only when a unit is not attached to a file. RAUSER is a "user specified" disk; the user can specify the size of the disk in either MB (1000000 bytes) or logical block numbers (LBN's, 512 bytes each). <b>The minimum size is 5MB; the maximum size is 2GB without extended file support, 1TB with extended file support</b>"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I tried it, (I user RAUSER with 2048 as the argument, it works) anything larger reports …..<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>VAX simulator V3.9-0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>NVR: buffering file in memory<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>C:\VAX\vax.ini> set rq4 rauser=20480<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Unit disabled<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>C:\VAX\vax.ini> attach rq4 C:\VAX\data\test.dsk<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Unit disabled<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>=================================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Joseph Ambrose<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>172 Ketcham Avenue<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Amityville, NY 11701<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Primary: 631-598-0528<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Mobile: 516-380-6047<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Email: jambrose0321@gmail.com (Job search related)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> joeambrose@optonline.net (Personal)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jambrose0321<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Lennert Van Alboom<br>Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 8:32 AM<br>To: simh@trailing-edge.com<br>Subject: [Simh] VAX and disk device size oddness<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I just started playing with a simh vax again. Built the 3.9 vax binary (on linux/powerpc), and it works fine.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Odd thing though: I cannot use RAUSER, it seems. I tried the following line:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>SET RQ1 RAUSER=20000 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Which should result in a 20GB disk. No dice though: simh claims "invalid parameter". I tried lowering the size to 10000, 5000, ... no difference. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I then tried replacing the RAUSER by RA92, which should be supported and have a ~8GB size. This was accepted. However, from the OS (VMS 7.3), after an INIT/ERASE the disk reports 2940951 blocks which is somewhat under 1.5GB. The<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>RQ0 RA90 reports the expected 2376153 blocks or somewhat under 1.2GB. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Now, the host OS is on a PPC G4, which means a 32bit kernel. Is this what is causing this? If yes, can I work around it? I'd prefer something bigger than 1.5GB :-)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Lennert<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>