20 May
2007
20 May
'07
2:45 a.m.
C H Dickman wrote:
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.