[Info-vax] Exploring a hard drive on a new Vaxstation
Steven Schweda
sms.antinode at gmail.com
Mon Jan 29 01:35:51 EST 2018
> You forgot the colon. "DKA300" is a file, "DKA300:" is a
> device.
Not really. As I recall (and it's been a _long_ time
since I powered one up), a MicroVAX II would fail if the
colon _was_ specified. Later models didn't care.
> -DKA300
> ?42 NOSUCHFILE, DKA300
> 84 FAIL
I believe that that should be interpreted as, "I can't
find the file I sought on device DKA300." A better message
would have revealed the [dir]name.type of that file.
> My guess is that the disk isn't a valid system disk.
Pretty much by definition, unless the default boot flags
are inappropriate/hosed.
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