Formatting disk on rt11 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Jun 1999

...
 Tim Shoppa just noted that V5.7 of RT-11 allows an RX50
floppy drive
to FORMAT under RT-11, but I am not aware if that is for EVERY
RX50 floppy drive,  OR  ONLY the special ones that have been noted
as being able to do a FORMAT on a Rainbow.  Either you (Allison)
or Megan Gentry or someone else mentioned that recently.  And I
don't know if all RQDX1,2,3 are included. 
I've not yet tried formatting an RX50 with V5.7, but I suspect that
it requires 1) an RX33 drive and 2) an RQDX3 (though maybe even the
RQZX1 will work - I'll have to defer to Tim on this).

When I was working on V5.6, the best we could do was format RX33s on
an RX33 drive... if you attemped to format an RX50 on an RX33 drive,
you got an RX33-formatted RX50 which was neither 1) usable or
2) reformattable to RX50.

					Megan Gentry
					Former RT-11 Developer

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