On May 3, 2026, at 1:19 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost> wrote:
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.
I would have thought the "type" is chosen based on the disk image size, but judging by the examples given that isn't the case. I wonder why not.
And yes, technically it's a string that should be configurable to anything the MSCP protocol can convey. But it would be nice if at least it produced identifiers matching the media size.
paul
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