20 Apr
2001
20 Apr
'01
5:02 p.m.
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 healyzh(a)aracnet.com wrote:
Likely, however, the disk in question is punched as a `flippy' so it is
unlikely that it was written as as RX02.
disks to PC
compatible disks. A CP/M disk has offered no challenge,
but I am stopped dead on a disk whose label indicates that it was
for use on a DEC Minc 11.
Using PUTR, I have tried mounting the disk as /RX01 and /RT11,
/FOREIGN, and even /OS8 at separate times. However, whenever I
If the disk is from a MINC-11, then it was almost definitly running RT-11.
However, I suspect it was an RX02 drive that it was written in. Unfortunatly I'm not that familiar with PUTR,
having only used it a couple
times, and I don't know what it might support in the way of 8" floppy
drives.
If you can make a disk image of the floppy, you might have better luck
accessing that with PUTR.
I think you may be right, but it is going to be a long laborious process
as AnaDisk insists on posting a separate Data Error message for each
sector in each track before doing anything else. CopyQM simply rejects
it!
- don
Zane