Old Computers
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I ordered a part for my PDP-11 and the seller included two sets of CDs titled: "Maintenance Documentation Service on CD-ROM".
The only issue is that the CD-ROM sets are formatted for openVMS and the search program included is for openVMS. Windows nor Linux (Ubuntu) recognize the disks. I did find a kernel module for Linux that can read ODS-2 and 5 (https://github.com/RomanHargrave/linux-ods5 http://www.vms2linux.de/ods5fs.html). I also found a program for windows that says it can read openVMS files, but I could not figure out how to use it with the CD (http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv.com?ODS2). Has anybody had any luck with either of these? I'm wanting to read these disks because they might have some helpful documents for the process of restoring my PDP-11/44.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
(If there would be a better place to post this please let me know or move it. Since it's DEC specific I thought it would fit here.)
The only issue is that the CD-ROM sets are formatted for openVMS and the search program included is for openVMS. Windows nor Linux (Ubuntu) recognize the disks. I did find a kernel module for Linux that can read ODS-2 and 5 (https://github.com/RomanHargrave/linux-ods5 http://www.vms2linux.de/ods5fs.html). I also found a program for windows that says it can read openVMS files, but I could not figure out how to use it with the CD (http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv.com?ODS2). Has anybody had any luck with either of these? I'm wanting to read these disks because they might have some helpful documents for the process of restoring my PDP-11/44.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
(If there would be a better place to post this please let me know or move it. Since it's DEC specific I thought it would fit here.)