[pups] Needed 2.11BSD 9-track boot tapes
Gregory R. Travis
greg at ciswired.com
Mon Aug 14 13:25:30 AEST 2000
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
> > From: "Gregory R. Travis" <greg at ciswired.com>
> > What I have:
> >
> > 11/83, QBUS, 2MB, DH11, running RT-11 5.04 plus TSX
> > - Kermit is installed on the machine
> > 2x CDC 384MB SMD disks attached to Emulex Controller emulating MSCP
> > 1 DigiData 800/1600 BPI 9-track drive attached to TM-11 emulating
> > controller
>
> It wouldn't happen to be an Emulex UC07 or UC08 would it? If so
> there are a couple possibilities that open up.
No, it's a DigiData board. Single QBUS board. Two 40-pin connectors.
>
> > How I can do that:
> > 1. Kermit transfer of 2.11BSD images to RT-11
>
> Slow but sure - the sum total of data to move is close to 80mb
I've already been waiting a few weeks :-)
> This can be made to work but it depends on having a program that can
> transfer the the files "bytes as bytes" (no record format
> interpretation, etc) _and_ handle multiple blocking factors on the
> first tape.
>
> If you have the PDP-11 volume of the archives you should see in the
> PDP-11/Distributions/ucb/2.11BSD directory two files called 'maketape.c'
> and 'maketape.data'. It's a small program and if a counterpart to
> that could be created for RT-11 you'd be all set to go.
Yeah, it's the RT-11 part that I don't know. It's a little hard to believe
that in 20+ years no-one has come up with an RT-11 program to build
UNIX distribution tapes! :-) (again)
> > 2. A kind soul sends me a set of 9-track 2.11BSD tapes with
> > boot images.
>
> My tape drive may or may not work - it's been ages since it was
> last powered up and I fear the rubber parts may have disintegrated
> (or the capacitors dried out, etc).
The Windex and electrical tape are on me. Did I mention that I would
happiliy provide 9-track boot service in the future? That is.
once I can get a system running!
> If the Emulex controller you have is SCSI based (UC07 or 08) then
> someone could stage and make available a 2.11BSD Zip disk image
> with all the stuff needed to boot and run the installation proceedure
> (I've a Zip disk attached to my UC08 - works great).
> Alternatively a 2.11 formatted CDROM could be created and a CDrom
> drive (that knew about 512 byte blocks instead of 2048 byte blocks)
> could be used.
Not SCSI, SMD/MSCP/Pertec formatted unfortunately
greg
Gregory Travis
Cornerstone Information Systems ATS
greg at ciswired.com
812 330 4361 ext. 18
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