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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Hi Joshua,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Please elaborate the details of your networking problems with the simh VAX.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>You should be able to build a vanilla VMS install on simh using the Hobbyist pieces of BOTH VMS and either the DEC IP stack or MultiNet and use that system as your import export tool. That system will absolutely no issues mounting simh disk images or running backup to restore your saveset to a different simh disk.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Mark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Simh [mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Joshua Overmiller<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 3, 2016 6:36 AM<br><b>To:</b> simh@trailing-edge.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [Simh] Mounting simh disk files in Linux<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I've built the ods2 tool and ods2reader from <a href="http://www.vms2linux.de/" target="_blank">http://www.vms2linux.de/</a> in order to try to read the simh disk files.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>However, trying "ods2 mount d0.dsk" responds with "Mount failed with 2312".<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Trying "ods2reader -l d0:[000000]" gives:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> d0:[000000] -- Bad block in file<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> d0:[000000] --- Cant't read index file header on d0<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>d0.dsk corresponds to DAU0 which is a RA92 disk.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Note there were some warnings when building both tools, but they both build.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>For ods2:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>ods2.c: In function ‘main’:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>ods2.c:1165:13: warning: ‘gets’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/stdio.h:638) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> if (gets(str) == NULL) break;<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>ods2.o: In function `main':<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>ods2.c:(.text.startup+0x2d5): warning: the `gets' function is dangerous and should not be used.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>For ods2reader:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Various warnings about implicit declaraions of builtin functions strlen, strcpy, and strcat.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>More info to follow to get some insight into what my plans are.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>My end goal is to migrate a physical MicroVAX 3100-90 VMS 5.5 system to simh.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I've been playing around with learning the BACKUP utility and Stand-Alone BACKUP under simh before I try anything out on the real system. I can make an image backup of the system disk to a SAVE_SET on another disk. The MicroVAX has the CMUIP installed so I can FTP the SAVE_SET off onto our network. I plan to write the SAVE_SET to an iso image for simh VAX to mount and copy to a local disk. I will then use BACKUP to restore the save set to a local disk.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I will also want to get some files off the simh VAX. Hence the need to mount the simh disk image files.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm struggling with getting the networking running in simh, so I'm looking into this route. However, other suggestions for getting files out of the simh disk image files are welcome.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Josh<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>