[Info-vax] Greater than approx 16GB disk leads to UNXSIGNAL crash

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On Friday, 28 May 2021 at 12:07:57 UTC+1, Volker Halle wrote:
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> CANASTA was the automatic Crashdump Analysis Tool, which I maintained for about a decade while at Digital/Compaq/HP. I still claim to be the person, which has seen more OpenVMS crash footprints than anyone else ;-) 

Ah, now I see why you wanted the CLU output :-)

> The problem itself seems to be in MOUNT, when setting up the geometry of the disk. Solutions i.e. patches may exist in the V7.2 remedial stream or higher. 

OK, thanks for that.


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> Don't know if simh supports setting the disk geometry. 

Not that I can see.

But I'm OK with configuring a bunch of smaller disks. Then I can archive "clean" copies of the original SIMH .dsk containers somewhere and work through the data on the emulated system.

Antonio