Re: DSSI Disks

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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