On 2026-05-03 16:44, Andrew Ball wrote:
I'm trying NetBSD/vax 11.0 RC3 on an emulated MicroVAX 3800. It seems to work but I notice that ra0 and ra1 are reported as the wrong type of drive (RF31 instead of RF35). Thanks to mscp the sector counts look good and NetBSD boots and seems to run without issue. -Andrew From dmesg:- ra0 at mscpbus0 drive 0: RF31 ra1 at mscpbus0 drive 1: RF31 ra2 at mscpbus0 drive 2: RF31 ra0: size 1664628 sectors ra1: size 1664628 sectors ra2: size 744400 sectors
The names are basically just strings returned from the simulator. They have no relevance beyond being just a string that you can print out.
Size/capacity similarly is reported as what the actual capacity is, without any regards to names.
So this is all just cosmetic, and it's a thing that you need to fix in the simulator if you want it to say something else.
And really, any disk could just report whatever name. It's just a string that consists of 1-3 letters and a number between 0 and 127.
Johnny
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