New subject: 3.5" MFM hard disk

28 May 2001

On 27 May, Pete Turnbull wrote:
...

 > If yours is a copy of the GR RXV21 then it should not only be able to
 > format disks, 
...
  BINGO!
 tic, tic, tic, tic, ...
 Can you hear this?
 It is the MXV21 formating a disk. :-) 
:-)

...
  simply do a
 d/p/w 20001E78 109
 d/p/w 20001E7A 92
 at the VAX console and the drive starts to format. OK. The next step is
 to write data to the medium and read them back.
 [a bit later]
 Ahhh, reading / writing and DMA from / to memory does work also. :-))) 
Excellent!  If you need any more info from the GR manual, just ask.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York

DEC RXV21 with 5.25 floppy