"Early" 3.5" diskettes (was: Wired covers VCF east - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

31 Jul 2001

What kind of drive???  I have a few older 3.5" drives about.

Allison

-----Original Message-----
From: Megan &lt;mbg(a)world.std.com&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: "Early" 3.5" diskettes (was: Wired covers VCF east

...

 Modern drives don't seem to mind missing
shutters, and all of the early
drives that I've tried are happy with modern diskettes with the shutter
removed.  So try taking the shutter off of a diskette and see whether
that makes the drive happy. 
Thanks, Fred...

I'll have to try it again...

The next part of the problem is trying to find such a drive to
put on an -11, interfaced in such a way so that I can read/write
the diskette.  Then I could try loading up an RT-11 monitor and
see if we can get the thing to boot.

 Megan Gentry
 Former RT-11 Developer

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