Re: SDI Disks

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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