<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 12, 2020, at 12:30 PM, Ken Hall <<a href="mailto:kjhall55@gmail.com" class="">kjhall55@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I’ve played with RT11 on and off over the years, but the one thing I’ve never been able to do is properly initialize an empty disk. If I create a DL2: for example, and try to run initialize on it, I get back:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">.dir dl2:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">?DIR-F-Error reading directory<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">.init dl2:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">DL2:/Initialize; Are you sure? YES<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">?DUP-F-Size function failed<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">This seems similar to the issues Henk Gooijen has been having with RK05’s, and it’s been so long since I’ve dealt with the real hardware I don’t recall exactly how this is supposed to work, but it seems to me it should just “work”.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Has anyone found a solution to this?</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I don't see that, at least not with RK05:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">RT-11FB V02C-02</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Simulation stopped, PC: 155450 (JSR PC,142336)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">sim> att rk1 newrk.dsk</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">RK: creating new file</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">sim> c</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">R PIP</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">*RK1:/Z</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">RK1:/Z ARE YOU SURE ?Y</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">*^C</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>paul</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></body></html>