<restorable backup of the drive. The two floppies respond to DIR/Bad, and <Init/Bad as devices DU1 and DU2:. But I get 'bad sector in system area' <when I try to init. How do I low-level floppies? Get a DEC Rainbow is teh common answer. There is no LLF utility with RT11 for RX50 (that dual drive). Allison