As with disks, Ersatz-11 uses a flexible device-independent interface to allow any supported physical tape device type to emulate any supported PDP-11 tape device type. E11's BOOT command includes support for tape drives, and using a compatible SCSI drive, the emulated PDP-11 can even be booted directly from original DEC operating system distribution tapes. The paper tape bootstrap emulates the absolute loader and can boot from ".LDA" files.
dev name | controller types | drive types |
---|---|---|
CT: | TA11 | TU60 DECassette dual cassette tape |
DD: | DL11 | TU58 DECtape II, see block devices |
DT: | TC11 | TU55/TU56 DECtape, see block devices |
MM: | RH11/RH70 + TM03 | TE16, TU45, TU77 Massbus magtape drives |
MS: | TS11, TSU05/TSV05, M7454, TQK25 | TS04, TS05, TU80, TK25 magtape drives |
MT: | TM11 | TS03, TU10 magtape drives |
MU: | KLESI, TQK50, TQK70 | TU81, TK50, TK70 TMSCP tapes |
PR:/PP: | PC11 | PC04 high speed paper tape reader/punch |