DQ614: was Re: What did you ask "Santa" ... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Dec 2001

On Dec 28, 14:30, Zane H. Healy wrote:

...
  Amazing!  Now the question is, does anyone know which
HD's will work with
 this?  I just might have to go digging through storage in the very near
 future! 
The manual had a "non-exclusive" list of drives known to work; it suggested
that just about anything should be OK.  The formatter lets you set things
like step pulse rate/seek time, heads, cylinders, etc.

...
  The other question is, once the disk is formated, does
it matter what you
 use for an OS on it, or does it need to be RT-11?  I was hoping to be able
...
  to use this board for OS's that expect RL02's
instead of MSCP disks. 
As far as I know, once the drive is formatted, it uses the standard driver.
 Assuming the formatting stores the setup details on the drive, I don't see
why it shouldn't be possible to use another OS afterwards.

I no longer have my DQ614, so I can't test it for you :-(

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York