15 Jul
2009
15 Jul
'09
9:50 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of rescue at hawkmountain.net
Sent: 15 July 2009 16:19
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: VaxStation 2000 as an MFM formatter (was RE: TCP/IP for VMS
5.4)
I used a MicroVAX 2000 to format an RD53 just the other day and then put the
RD53 into a MicroVAX II with an M7555 controller and it worked fine. I can't
say whether that worked by accident or by design, but I got the result I
wanted.
Regards
Rob
If you going to mess with MFM drives you must have a MicroVAX2000 as
its
a good RDxx formatter in a box (RqDX3
compatable). If it has decent
amount
of memory and an RD54 in it they can be fun to
play with as they are
small and very portable. The alternate is to MOP load VMS to it and
use a
small 20-40mb disk for local files and swap.
With two you can run
LAVC!
Allison
Wasn't there discussion some time back regarding a difference in
interleave between the VS2000 and an RQDX3 ? Was that ever determined
to be the case ?
-- Curt