27 May
2001
27 May
'01
6:37 a.m.
Hi.
I decided to write a NetBSD driver for the DEC QBus RXV21 8" floppy
controller. Unfortunately I have only two controllers, no 8" drive nor
medium. I thought that this would'nt be a problem, as it is possible to
connect a 5.25" drive to a 8" floppy controller. But the medium needs to
be reformated. Now that I have the controller doc, I had to read that
the RXV21 can not format a floppy. It needs preformated media.
Would it be possible to use some other machine* with 5.25" floppy drive
to format the 5.25 media an way that the RXV21 can read it?
* Other machines are QBus MicroVAXen, VAXstation 2000 and PDP11 with
RQDX or PeeCees.
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tsch??,
Jochen
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