18 Sep
2006
18 Sep
'06
11:13 p.m.
On Monday 18 September 2006 18:53, Gary E Kaufman wrote:
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The only media that seems to work fine is
"real" RX02 media.
Is the RX02 incapable of formatting it's own media? Is there a common
hardware problem that I should look for? Filter caps? Clean the
stepper motor?
The RX02 cannot format "raw" diskettes. It can "re-format" RX01
diskettes to
RX02 format diskettes and vice-versa. Software is available for both the
PDP-11 and PDP-8 to do so.
RX01 diskettes are essentially IBM System/34 compatible diskettes; i.e., IBM
3470 format.
One can "create" IBM 3470/RX01 diskettes using "PUTR" on a PC which
has a FDC
connected to an 8" Shugart floppy diskette drive.
See: http://www.dbit.com/fdadap.html for an excellent 8" floppy adapter for a
PC.
Cheers,
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"