21 Sep
1998
21 Sep
'98
5:10 p.m.
Roger Ivie posted the following many, many years ago.
It's for the RD51,
not the RD52, but it should get you started. One tiny note: Roger
didn't figure out the Media ID scheme, but if you look at the source
code to my DUSTAT utility (i.e. take a look at:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/rt/dust…
ustat.mac
) and look at my comments there about how the media type code is
represented.
I'd already found the procedure from Roger Ivie, which was why I'd hoped
someone had already figured it out. Especially since the only stats I've
found on the disk aren't that informative.
However, I just realized, I am trying to make this overly difficult. I'm
wanting to use these drives on PDP-11's which means they need to be
formated on one. So the question I should really be asking is how to get
them formated on a RQDX3 that's in a PDP-11. The reason for trying to
format them on the VS2000 was just to make sure they worked (and for some
reason I was thinking it was a good idea, go figure).
Ah, well at least I know that at least one seems to be good.
Zane
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