XXDP+ LL Formatter on RX50/RX33 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Apr 2000

On Apr 17, 12:15, Jeffrey l Kaneko wrote:
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  On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:35:56 -0400 (EDT)
allisonp(a)world.std.com writes:
 > > Has anybody ever ripped the Low Level formatter
 > > from the XXDP+ diskpack and put the needed components
 > > onto a floppy (of some sort)? [...]
...
   It's
doable.  You need to create a bootable XXDP disk and copy the
 required formatter to it. not much more than that required. 
 I figured as much; I was just probing to see if anyone had already
 done it. 
Yes, DEC did: ZY003P3 Field Service Tests disks for the microPDP-11 series,
contains 4 Field Service Test RX50's (CZXDnB0 where n = 1...4) and a CZUFB1
disk which has the monitor, menu, help text, UPD2 and assorted tests
including ZRQA?? and ZRQC??

I've also got a pair of rather later XXDP 2 disks from 11/53 systems, which
have XXDPXM, XXDPSM, DRSXM, DRSSM, DIR, assorted drivers, UPDAT, XTECO,
DXCL, SETUP, HELP.  One disk also has ZRQA??..ZRQF??  and the other has
VDHA??..VDHE??, VMSA??, ZTKA?? and ZTKB??

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York