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Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection

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Il Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:42:59 -0700, james ha scritto:

> On Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:54:53 UTC, supervinx  wrote:
>> Did you ever user 10.4 tape images found on Bitsavers ? I tried them on
>> the emulator.
>> During the initial writing on the hard disk, after EX DOMAIN_OS
>> when writing the SAU7/ part, system stops signaling a tape error (I
>> mean a logical error, not physical), like there had been a CPTAPE error
>> when the images were created.
>> The sistem is incomplete: cannot execute nor GO nor INIT, only SHUT and
>> REBOOT.
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I tried to install Domain/OS in the emulator from the tape images on
> Bitsavers but I had the same problems as you. I tried it several times
> and eventually the first part worked and I got through to part 2 of the
> install in the DM, but the other tapes kept failing at different points
> so I couldn't complete the install. I am not sure if it is a problem
> with the tape images or the tape emulation. It is quite a shame that the
> disk images mentioned in the Readme aren't available. I know there are
> licensing issues but really this can only be of historical interest now
> surely.

Hi !
I installed with success the tape images from bitsavers, with the emulator.
You need the latest package of the ost emulator and some patience.
I installed the "large" options with two 380MB disks INVOLed as one.

I can help you if you give me some other infos, like:
1) Host system
2) package used (i.e. the one downloaded from umich.edu)

The umich.edu zip has a random timing error reading from tape. I overcomed it,
before receving from the author another zip, putting the emulator (messtiny), 
the disk images and the tape images on three different physical disk. Tape images
were on a disk with no other activity.
With the updated version, the trick it's not necessary.
(still random reset problems of the tape subsystem: from the MD, instead of
> RE you should reset the machine with scrollock, partial emulation, F3)
Tape must be changed from the emulator menu (scroll lock, partial emulation, 
tab,file manager ...)

Now I'm planning to create other images with other option (not large...) and
tried networking...
If you need the updated version, feel free to contact me at
supervinx
@
libero
.
it

-- 
http://www.supervinx.com/Retrocomputer

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