[TUHS] Booting PDP-11's from RX02's
Fred Cisin
cisin at xenosoft.com
Mon Oct 31 19:04:55 CDT 2016
> If you cared about not erasing the drive manufacture's data on sealed
> media Winchester and the like you have to avoid any writes to cylinder 0
> at all.
On a floppy?
It might not be relevant HERE, but SOME computers have a different
physical format on track 0 (such as systems that evolved from FM to MFM
and continued to have track 0 be single density)
Writing to track 0 could be hazardous to whatever is s'posed to be on
track 0.
More information about the cctalk
mailing list