Thanks to all and sundry for the help... I have a TU-58 drive from a VAX-11/730
sitting on top of my old PC, new rubber (tygon) rollers, a custom power cable,
parts from a DataRAM chassis for a serial adapter, and PUTR from www.dbit.com
all rolled together.
I tested the rig by slurping up a three-tape set of Ultrix 2.2 standalone
boot. Running "strings" on the first image reveals all the sorts of
messages one would expect in a VAX boot program. In a few minutes, I
hope to be looking at something similar for VMS 3.2.
Got lots of tapes to read in. The process seems to run about 4 tapes per
hour with all the seek time (the media is 4:1 interleaved which is supposed
to improve performance on file access, but for a physical backup, it sucks).
By tomorrow I should have something interesting. I wonder if any of the
VAX emulators support console media?
-ethan
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Received on Tue Jul 10 2001 - 01:32:37 BST