[Info-vax] Out of diskspace :(

Single Stage to Orbit alex.buell at munted.eu
Sat May 19 07:20:24 EDT 2012


On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 07:53 +0200, Martin Vorlaender wrote:
> Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> > What is the largest size for disks that SimH-vax supports? Currently
> > these are 2GB SCSI disks. Is there anything else larger I can configure
> > SimH-vax with?
> 
>    SET RQn RAUSER=s    ! set type to RA82 with size s MB
> 
> If your SimH/VAX is compiled with large file support, the maximum size
> is 1 TB.

Ah, excellent, I wasn't aware one could specify the disk size. 

> Use the SimH console to check whether large file support is compiled in:
> 
>    sim> show version
>    VAX simulator V3.8-1 [64b data, 64b addresses, Ethernet support]

And that brings us to another problem; is it possible to 'grow' the disk
image or will I have to create the disk and copy the original disk into
the larger disk? 

Thanks for the help given so far.

Regards
Alex
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