How to transfer data FAST?

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Zane" == Zane H Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> writes:

 >> So tell me, what are the really cool methods to transfer data
 >> between a PC and a real PDP11 at a reasonable speed? SCSI
 >> controller and SCSI disk? Something else? Ethernet?
 >> 
 >> Or is a backup over serial line a normal thing...?

 Zane> It helps that I have SCSI Controllers on my operational
 Zane> PDP-11's.  I use removable disk trays that allow me to move the
 Zane> HD's between PDP-11's, and more importantly to hook them up to
 Zane> a Unix box, at which point I can use 'dd' to back them up.  The
 Zane> resulting disk images can be accessed via SIMH, E11, or burned
 Zane> to a CD-R and accessed on the real PDP-11 HW.  I've managed to
 Zane> boot and install RT-11, RSX-11M, and RSX-11M+ from CD-R.  I've
 Zane> yet to figure out how to do that with RSTS/E. 

If the CD-R is on a controller RSTS understands (MSCP is the only
option I can think of for this) and is formatted with the RSTS file
structure, and has a boot block in sector zero, it should all just
work.

I haven't personally done this but I'm pretty sure it was done by one
of my friends.  I even have some weird "hybrid file system" hacks in
RSTSFLX to let you create a CD-R that's partly ISO and partly RTST,
and bootable.  I believe that was used and shown to work, though I
never saw the results.

If you have the files, RSTSFLX can make a bootable disk image for you,
so you can try this yourself.

   paul