19 May
2007
19 May
'07
7:33 p.m.
Charles H. Dickman wrote:
I have an RD32 that I just formatted with an RQDX3
last week. I am
going to get my Pro380 out and see what happens. I will probably do
this with RT11.
The RD32 did not work. I could not convince the standard FORMAT
program
to format the disk. This may be because the RD32 had 6 heads and none of
the standard Pro drives had 6 heads.
I then took a 3.5" NEC D3142 drive that came out of an old NEC PC and it
formatted in the Pro just fine. This drive has 8 heads and 642 tracks.
If the FORMAT program uses the same identification algorithm as DW.SYS,
it probably sees that it has 8 heads and interprets that as an RD52Q.
Is there a way to boot from the RX50 if there is an OS on the hard disk
in a Pro? The only way that I could get the RX50 to boot was to remove
the hard disk and then power up without a floppy in the drive and then
when I got the diskette image on the screen to insert the floppy.