Might I would suggest a slightly different path. Install Quasijarus on a more traditional vax processor with RH style disks [RMxx/RPxx] on the simh. Then add a virtual RZ SCSI disk to the simh system [although you might not even need to do that - as simh just sees the disk as a linear file of blocks without any geometry]. The trick is to make sure the virtual disk is set up so that you have a working system/booting system on the virtual disk when changing the processor type to match the VAXstation. Then just DD the image to a real SCSI drive and move it to the VAXstation. On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 3:51 PM Adam Thornton wrote: > Thanks to Emanuel Steibler, I am now in possession of a VAXStation 4000 > VLC. I've got OpenVMS installed, but, well, the SCSI2SD gives me two more > 2GB disks (the fourth partition is the OpenVMS install CD). > > I'd like to put Quasijarus on it. > > Problem is, the VLC only supports, as far as I know, SCSI devices. I'm > quite happy to install Quasijarus under simhfrom an emulated SCSI tape to > an rz device and then just dd the resulting disk image over to the SD > card...but I can't work out how to do it. > > This (as my simh ini file) works fine for getting to the emulated console: > > set rz0 rzu > att rz0 quas.dsk > set rz4 tz30 > att rz4 quas.tap > boot.cpu > > Problem is, quas.tap doesn't actually work; neither the prepackaged > 4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c.tap nor one I make with mkdisttap.pl and the input > stand/miniroot/etc files. > > I get this: > > adam@m1-wired:~/Documents/src/quasi$ ./vaxstation4000vlc install.ini > > VAXstation 4000-VLC (KA48) simulator V4.0-0 Current git commit id: > 9bf37d3d > /Users/adam/Documents/src/quasi/install.ini-4> att rz4 quas.tap > RZ4: Tape Image 'quas.tap' scanned as SIMH format > /Users/adam/Documents/src/quasi/install.ini-5> boot cpu > Loading boot code from internal ka48a.bin > > > > KA48-A V1.2-32B-V4.0 > 08-00-2B-B2-35-2C > 16MB > > ?? 010 2 LCG 0086 > ?? 001 3 DZ 0032 > ?? 001 4 CACHE 0512 > ?? 001 7 IT 8706 > ?? 001 8 SYS 0128 > ?? 001 9 NI 0024 > > >>> show dev > > VMS/VMB ADDR DEVTYPE NUMBYTES RM/FX WP DEVNAM > REV > ------- ---- ------- -------- ----- -- ------ > --- > ESA0 08-00-2B-B2-35-2C > DKA0 A/0/0 DISK 2.14GB FX RZ23 > 0A18 > DKA100 A/1/0 DISK ...... FX RZ23 > 0A18 > DKA200 A/2/0 DISK ...... FX RZ23 > 0A18 > DKA300 A/3/0 DISK ...... FX RZ23 > 0A18 > MKA400 A/4/0 TAPE RM TZK50 > 1.1A > DKA500 A/5/0 DISK ...... FX RZ23 > 0A18 > ..HostID.. A/6 INITR > DKA700 A/7/0 DISK ...... FX RZ23 > 0A18 > > > > >>> boot mka400: > > > -MKA400 > > > ?48 ENDOFFILE > HALT instruction, PC: 00000B15 (MOVL (R11),SP) > > Sooooo.... > > How do I make a bootable SCSI tape image from Quasijarus? Or, > alternatively, how can I create a bootable ISO image from the Quasijarus > installation files (and then either install under simh, or just dd to an SD > partition and boot from there, or even burn to an actual CD and install > from a SCSI CD-ROM drive)? > > Adam >