sher@cs.buffalo.EDU (David Sher) (10/07/87)
My sister has sent me this question: What we'd like to know is whether anyone knows a way to read 8 inch floppies formatted with rt-11 on a new microvax. Another way of solving the problem would be how to put a tk50 on a pdp-11 using rt-ll so that the tapes can be analyzed using a microvax (not using rt-11). Thanks. You can mail replies to me and I'll foward them. Thank you! -David Sher ARPA: sher@cs.buffalo.edu BITNET: sher@sunybcs UUCP: {rutgers,ames,boulder,decvax}!sunybcs!sher
scco@ur-tut.UUCP (Sean Colbath) (10/08/87)
In article <5735@sunybcs.UUCP> sher@sunybcs.UUCP (David Sher) writes: > What we'd like to know is whether anyone knows a way to read 8 inch > floppies formatted with rt-11 on a new microvax. Another way of solving > the problem would be how to put a tk50 on a pdp-11 using rt-ll so that the > tapes can be analyzed using a microvax (not using rt-11). Thanks. Well, if you can get them on 5.25" floppies, they can be read with the EXCHANGE program, which I believe is standard with VMS. The RT-11 disks are in something called 'Files-11' format which is a DEC standard for their older PDP operating systems, I believe. As for putting them on TK-50, I am pretty sure there is a device driver for RT-11, but not positive. If you are running TSX under RT-11 I believe one comes with the system. The only alternative I can think of is writing the files on 8" disks, powering down the PDP, and moving the board to the Microvax, if you have the appropriate device driver. >-David Sher >ARPA: sher@cs.buffalo.edu BITNET: sher@sunybcs >UUCP: {rutgers,ames,boulder,decvax}!sunybcs!sher Sean Colbath Internet: scco@tut.cc.rochester.edu UUCP: ...allegra!rochester!ur-tut!scco BITNET: SCCOCCSS@UORVM "...and now for something completely different..."