On 3/20/07, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/20/07, David Betz <dbetz at xlisper.com>
wrote:
I'm planning on using a Maxtor XT-2190 190mb
hard drive. If that
won't work, I have a number of RD53 drives I can use instead.
That should work fine with the RQDX3, as long as the drives were
previously formatted on an RQDX3 or if you can boot XXDP's low-level
formatter. I've never done it from a PDP-11, so I don't recall the
XXDP module name (I've always done it from either a MicroVAX 2000 or
from a MicroVAX II w/Field Service Diagnostics).
I've recently gone through several of these exercises for the first
time. If you can get a 5.25" floppy hooked up to the RQDX3 that can
make things much easier. The 11/73 I acquired already had an RX33 so
I didn't need to figure out how to configure a 5.25" to be RX33
compatible. I used E11 on a PC to boot XXDP from the RL02 disk image
and created a bootable RX33 disk image with the ZRQCH0 binary. Then I
booted the 11/73 from the RX33 disk and ran ZRQCH0 to format an RD52.
My 11/73 is a KDJ11-B so it has the onboard DU boot ROM and console
port.
There is an XXDP doc here which refers to a previous release of ZRQCHF0
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/xxdp/PDP11_DiagnosticHandbook_1988.p…
There are references on the web to running XXDP binaries through
VTServer. I have never tried that myself.
-Glen