Imaging and Emulating Rainbow

[Alexandre Souza]

Linux, using dd?

Enviado do meu Tele-Movel

Em 14/08/2016 09:22, "Rob Jarratt" <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> escreveu:

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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Rob
> Jarratt
> > Sent: 14 August 2016 11:55
> > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> > <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> > Subject: Imaging and Emulating Rainbow
> >
> > I have a Rainbow 100+ with a working hard disk. I want to image the disk
> > before it fails and then emulate the Rainbow. The disk is an RD51 and
> > appears to have 4 partitions on it.
> >
> >
> >
> > For imaging my first thought is to put the disk into a MicroVAX II, net
> boot the
> > MicroVAX into VMS and do a BACKUP/PHYSICAL, copying the image to a
> > SIMH tap file.  There shouldn't be any issues with this I assume?
> >
>
> Oh dear. VMS would not let me MOUNT/FOREIGN, it said:
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>         %MOUNT-F-FORMAT, invalid media format
>
> So I couldn't mount it to do the BACKUP/PHYSICAL.
>
> What options do I have to image this disk?
>
> Regards
>
> Rob
>
>