29 Aug
2006
29 Aug
'06
2:04 p.m.
On 8/29/2006 at 1:47 PM Zane H. Healy wrote:
I suspect, but this is only a guess, that the issue is
the way the DEC MFM
drives are formated. There are only two ways that I'm aware of to format
an MFM drive for use on a VAX. One is with a MicroVAX/VAXstation 2000
(formatter is built into the ROM's), the other is with the Field Service
Diagnostics (customer diagnostics can't format drives).
Bingo. Even back in the old PC XT/AT MFM days, you couldn't always take an
MFM drive formatted on one manufacturer's controller and use it as-is on
another's.
Cheers,
Chuck