[Info-vax] Attaching an actual 3.5" floppy drive to SIMH-VAX RXV21 device?

[sampsa]

On Aug 9, 9:31 am, sampsa <samp... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can I attach a Linux floppy device (/dev/fd0, high density 3.5" 1.44
> MB drive, attached to an old-school onboard FDD controller on a Dell
> Inspiron 8000) to the RXV21 device on SIMH-VAX?
>
> Just wondering, not thinking there's any practical use for this, it'd
> be more for the retro value.
>
> sampsa

It actually works! The only bummer is that it buffers the whole damn
disk in memory, so halting the emulator to read the disk in, and then
when you detach it, it halts the emulator to write the changes.

Workable but kinda kills the VAX whilst changing disks.