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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Hi Will,<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'>To help answer your question, please:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<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'>Provide the output of SHOW VERSION from the sim> prompt of your running simulator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<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'>Provide the complete configuration file you are running the simulator with<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<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'>After you get the </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>"%INIT-F-MEDOFL, medium is offline" </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>messages enter ^E and type SHOW RQ and SHOW DL at the sim> prompt and provide that output here.<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'>Thanks.<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 lfo2'><![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>will kranz<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 3, 2018 8:04 AM<br><b>To:</b> simh@trailing-edge.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [Simh] Simh VAX V3.9-0 Problems using Init command<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19407"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19409"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19410"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19411"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19412"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19413"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19414"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>I'm currently running OpenVMS 073.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19415"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19417"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>I did this a week ago on a different machine (not accessable today) and it worked fine.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19418"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>I have a bootable vms073.dsk image, and I created two empty files per below to be initialized.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19420"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>in vax.ini I had:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19421"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>attach RQ0 vms073.dsk<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19423"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>attach RQ3 rx50.dsk<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19424"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>attach RL0 rl01.dsk<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19425"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19427"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Then started emulate and booted CPU followed by:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19429"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>b DUA0<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19430"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>works fine, and I log in.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19431"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19433"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>last week I believe I just did following to create bare disk image files just containing system files:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19434"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>init DUA3: VRX50<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19435"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>init DLA0: VRL01<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19436"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19438"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>This week the init fails, and I am told "%INIT-F-MEDOFL, medium is offline"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19439"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19441"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>but the result for "sh dev" for these devices is:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19442"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>SIMH1$DUA3: Online 0<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19443">SIMH1$DLA0: Online 0<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19444"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19446"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>I am puzzled as to why this doesn't work now. What am I missing here?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19447"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Thanks in advance.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530628110306_19449"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>