On 2026-05-03 19:03, Andrew Ball wrote:
ASB> I notice that ra0 and ra1 are reported as the wrong type of
> drive (RF31 instead of RF35).
JB> 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.
Thanks Johnny (and thanks Michael for the correction). I'll try
some other disk types to submit a more helpful report to the open-simh
people. RF71 works:-
ra3 at mscpbus0 drive 3: RF71
ra3: no disk label: size 781440 sectors
I wasn't even aware that simh could report "RF71". simh have been pretty stubborn on not accepting that it should be an arbitrary string, and have just a few fixed values hardcoded in the code. (Atleast when I last checked.)
But honestly, I would just ignore this "problem". Like I said - it's very much just a cosmetic thing.
Johnny
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