RSTS/E Sysgen Successful

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_netcom.com>
Date: Mon Jul 5 14:14:31 1999

  Thanks to everyone who provided help of all kinds. I finished up
the sysgen in just under two hours.. praying all the way that my
semi-flaky Kennedy drive would behave during the process, which it
did, bless it's little blower motor. :)

  I added support for RL02s, RK05s, RX02, PC05, and expanded
some of the runtime language packages to include math and FPP
functions. Everything else got the defaults.

  SO: the object of this sysgen was primarily to allow the use of
the RL02 disks. And here I have a stuckness: I can sucessfully
init an RL02 disk, erase it, exercise it, find it's bad blocks, and
then mount it. All ok. But I can't allocate it, write a file to it,
or get a directory. The error message is 'Device not available.'

  I can do 'show dev' and see that it is mounted, but from there I
cannot find out what the next step is. I have a RSTS Orange Wall on
the way in, but it will be almost two weeks before I get it.

  Until then.. what need I do to read and write the RL02s?


  NOTE>>> Especial thanks to Tim Shoppa and Bruce Lane! <<<NOTE

           None of this would have been possible without your
           kindness and generous sharing of Knowledge.


  Cheers

John
Received on Mon Jul 05 1999 - 14:14:31 BST