<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Sorry to be a pest but now I am getting an error. I got the same one using a pre-built system I found on Bitsavers.<br><br>>run bad<br>><br>BAD>db0:<br>BAD -- DB0: Unrecoverable error -65.<br>BAD>du0:<br><br>><br>><br> BAD -- DU0: Total bad blocks= 0.<br>BAD>^Z<br><br>>run bru<br>><br>BRU>/rew ms0: du0:<br>BRU - Starting Tape 1 on MS0:<br><br>BRU - End of Tape 1 on MS0:<br><br>BRU - Completed<br><br>BRU>PuTTY<br><br><br>RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6 BL87 <a href="http://128.KW">128.KW</a> System:"Baseline"<br>>RED DU:=SY:<br>>RED DU:=LB:<br>>RED DU:=SP:<br>>MOU DU0:"RSX11MPBL87"<br>>@[2,54]BASTART.CMD<br>12:46:19 *** GEN Checkpoint space allocation failure<br>12:46:19 *** GEN Checkpoint space allocation failure<br>12:46:19 *** GEN Checkpoint space allocation failure<br>12:46:19 *** GEN Checkpoint space allocation failure<br>12:46:19 *** GEN Checkpoint space allocation failure<br>12:46:19 *** GEN Checkpoint space allocation failure<br><br></div>I apologize for my lack of knowledge. I am eager to learn but I have never even seen a real PDP-11 let alone use one. I am just trying to learn vicariously through simh.<br><br></div>Thanks<br><br></div>Ray<br><div><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Johnny Billquist <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se" target="_blank">bqt@softjar.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi.<span class=""><br>
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On 2017-05-07 21:30, Ray Jewhurst wrote:<br>
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Thank you very much. For future reference is there a simh to RSX (or<br>
any other OS for that matter) conversion chart for the various devices?<br>
It would be quite handy.<br>
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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.<br>
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).<br>
<br>
simh is a different (new) system, with yet a different naming scheme, which further complicates things.<br>
<br>
simh seem to have mostly adopted the Unix driver names for the hardware devices. :-)<br>
<br>
Trying to create a list, while possible, is some work, since DEC had lots of types of devices...<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Johnny<br>
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Thanks again,<br>
Ray<br>
<br>
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Johnny Billquist <<a href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se" target="_blank">bqt@softjar.se</a><br></span><span class="">
<mailto:<a href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se" target="_blank">bqt@softjar.se</a>>> wrote:<br>
<br>
On 2017-05-07 21:05, Ray Jewhurst wrote:<br>
<br>
Hello everyone,<br>
I am trying to do my first installation and sysgen of RSX-11M+<br>
(actually<br>
first of any RSX-11!) and I am follow the instructions at<br>
<a href="http://www.9track.net/pdp11/rsx4_sysgen" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.9track.net/pdp11/rs<wbr>x4_sysgen</a><br>
<<a href="http://www.9track.net/pdp11/rsx4_sysgen" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.9track.net/pdp11/r<wbr>sx4_sysgen</a>> and I am having<br>
problems right<br>
out of the gate. When I try to copy the baseline system this is<br>
what I get:<br>
<br>
<br>
[...]<br>
<br>
Whatever instructions you are reading are wrong then.<br>
<br>
How about just test that /DEV switch which is mentioned, and you'd<br>
get a list of what devices are available.<br>
<br>
MSCP disks (rq and ra) are named DU, not DB. DB is RP04/05/06 disks.<br>
<br>
That said, MSCP disks are good, since then you can use any size on<br>
the disk.<br>
However, I'd also set it up as an 11/93, and not 11/73.<br>
<br>
Johnny<br>
<br>
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Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus<br>
|| on a psychedelic trip<br></span>
email: <a href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se" target="_blank">bqt@softjar.se</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se" target="_blank">bqt@softjar.se</a>> ||<span class=""><br>
Reading murder books<br>
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol<br>
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-- <br>
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus<br>
|| on a psychedelic trip<br>
email: <a href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se" target="_blank">bqt@softjar.se</a> || Reading murder books<br>
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol<br>
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