[HECnet] RSTS/E is really picky

[Paul_Koning at Dell.com]

On May 20, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:

On Tue, 20 May 2014, Cory Smelosky wrote:

After a reboot:

Pack cluster size is not 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 or 64.
PC=120324 PS=030344 OV=000006 M5=004000 M6=004200 SP=041236
R0=000026 R1=143161 R2=143161 R3=000000 R4=000002 R5=041350

The disk is 1048778 blocks.   I created a 512M image and copied it bit-for-bit to the disk.   I think i'll just go SYSGEN 4.8 and wait for my cleaning tapes to get RSTS/E working.

How about copying the image back off, to see if the disk controller mangled it?

The message you quoted says that the content of block 1 is invalid (the pack label).   Judging by the code, what it found is 0143161 rather than a valid PCS.

I wonder if your partitioning disk controller is misbehaving. 

BTW, sufficiently recent versions of RSTS (including the one you have, given that message) should handle a 2 GB disk directly (at DCS=64).   That way you don   t need to mess with partitions.

	paul