22 Feb
2022
22 Feb
'22
9:27 a.m.
I have a generic 5.25? (not sure of brand) in my dell GX1 but it writes plain SSDD
floppies in RX50 format no problem.
The RX33 was a pretty standard PC floppy drive AFAIK, just configured (with jumpers) to
work as an RX33. You may find better milage configuring it as a PC floppy drive, as PUTR
expects to work on PC drives at the device level. Having a real RX33 might be throwing it
off. Don?t take it as gospel, since i?ve not got an RX33 to test it with.
Not sure if PUTR can copy images to a floppy, as i?ve only used it to build a bootable
RT11 disk, and make a few RT11 disks out of the contents of images mounted by PUTR. You
might find it better to work on a blank formatted floppy and build up from there.
On Feb 22, 2022, at 4:20 PM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi All
I did find some RX50 images of the MicroRSX distribution.
So I fired up my DEC Celebris FX. It runs W95 and has a 3.5 inch floppy, a real RX33
5.25 inch drive and a CD-R.
Its accessible on my network so getting files onto it is not a problem.
So install putR.com , and transfer the image files.
Huh! putR says the RX50 disk is write protected. Its not and the drive works normally
with the disk from the MS DOS prompt.
So much for putR writes RX50's on RX33!
Rod