[Info-vax] How to mount/unmount CD and tapes on axpbox emulator??

[Hans Bachner]

Tim,

Timothy Stark schrieb am 19.11.2020 um 14:57:
> Folks,
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> I am figuring out how to mount/unmount CD/tape images on axpbox emulator
> without shutting system down like on SIMH VAX emulator?
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> When I run axpbox, there is no prompt to change CD/tape images.  There is
> only way to change es40.cfg file requires system and emulator shutdown.
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> Are that plans to add prompt to axpbox emulator to supporting mount/unmount
> images, etc while running system?

I could not try AXPbox yet (my first attempt resulted in an emulator 
crash during VMS installation) but I would try this:

- dismount the CD / tape drive in VMS
- rename the CD image / tape image file to something else
- copy the desired CD image / tape image file to the directory given in 
the axpbox configuration file and rename it to the file name which the 
emulator expects

e.g. the default configuration file has this definition:
> disk0 .4 = file {
>       file = "img\scsi_cd.iso";
>       [...]
>     }

In this case, make sure that the CD image file is the "img" subdirectory 
and has the name "scsi_cd.iso".

At least, this works for other emulators.

Good luck,
Hans.