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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-09 14:00:57 +0000, Paul Sture said:

> FWIW I have always taken that approach with CDs in SimH.  I haven't tried
> this in many years, but earlier versions of OS X (or was it something in
> my setup?) would simply eject a VMS boot CD with an unrecognisable format
> message before SimH could attach to it.

Cleaned the dust out of a DVD drive on a OS X 10.6.8 box, tossed in a 
handy Freeware CD disk (and given I know exactly how that disk was 
constructed), got a "this disk is not readable by this computer" dialog 
with an "ignore" and "eject", selected "ignore", and the disk quietly 
sat in the drive.

Didn't try an xxd of the CD to check readability, though.


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