Subject: Re: RL01 support in NetBSD?
To: Carl Lowenstein <cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu>
From: James Lothian <simul8@simul8.demon.co.uk>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/18/2000 19:46:50
It also comes in handy for dealing with the 750's console TU58, and for
swapping files with RT11 PDPs using the RX02. 
ObDriverRequest: anybody want to do a driver for the RX02?
It's lack of support for these bits of antique ironmongery that's
stopped
me from upgrading to NetBSD...

James

Carl Lowenstein wrote:
[snip]
> Ultrix 4.2 (VAX) had really good support for the RT-11 file system.
> The name of the program escapes me at the moment.  It just came back.
> "arff".  There was a very limited version of arff on BSD4.x for
> maintaining the VAX 780 console floppy.  When last seen by me on
> Ultrix, there was support for RL01/02 as well as RK05, RX01/02 and
> maybe others.  Initialize, read, write RT file systems as disk images
> and probably also as real hardware.
> 
>     carl
> 
>         carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
>         {decvax|ucbvax} !ucsd!mpl!cdl                 cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu
>                                                   clowenstein@ucsd.edu