How to transfer data FAST?

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Antonio" == Antonio Carlini <a.carlini at ntlworld.com> writes:

 >> No, RSTS is RDS-1; it's a file structure all its own, totally
 >> unrelated to any other PDP-11 OS.  (It's a distant relative of the
 >> TSS-8 file system, though.)

 Antonio> The trick with interleaving ODS-2 and ISO9660 is to use the
 Antonio> first 64 blocks or so that ISO9660 leaves undefined as the
 Antonio> "in" for ODS-2.  Then you get N blocks of ISO9660 data and
 Antonio> meta-data. The ISO9660 blocks get collected into BADBLK.SYS
 Antonio> in ODS-2.

That's essentially what I did.

 Antonio> As long as RDS-1 does not absolutely need block 64 and some
 Antonio> way onwards, then it may be possible to logically interleave
 Antonio> it and ISO9660.

Right.  The only hardwired block is block 1 (the "pack label").  All
the rest starts from there and can be anywhere.  Oh yes, and block 0
(the boot block) of course, for bootable disks.

     paul