14 Jan
2021
14 Jan
'21
10:25 a.m.
Hm. I remember that POS 2.0 and above would just format the hard disk
and go during the install. Likewise I don't know if you can have
multiple hard disks in P/OS so that's a pain in the tail.
Boot from floppies and just init the raw disk.
C
On 1/14/2021 11:39 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
I'm wondering how to do hard drive formatting,
which is likely to be needed when working with emulated disks in David Gesswein's MFM
emulator.
As far as I can tell, RT-11 can do this. At least I have a source code printout for such
a formatter. But while I can find a hard drive image of RT V5 for Pro, I haven't
found any floppy-bootable images. And I think it's a bit tricky to create one. I
knew, long ago for V2...
Any suggestions? Any alternative sources for a formatter? I guess I really should
consider typing in the core of that formatter and adding it to RSTS.
paul