DEC Pro hard drive formatter

[Chris Zach]

Hm. I remember that POS 2.0 and above would just format the hard disk 
and go during the install. Likewise I don't know if you can have 
multiple hard disks in P/OS so that's a pain in the tail.

Boot from floppies and just init the raw disk.

C


On 1/14/2021 11:39 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> I'm wondering how to do hard drive formatting, which is likely to be needed when working with emulated disks in David Gesswein's MFM emulator.
> 
> As far as I can tell, RT-11 can do this.  At least I have a source code printout for such a formatter.  But while I can find a hard drive image of RT V5 for Pro, I haven't found any floppy-bootable images.  And I think it's a bit tricky to create one.  I knew, long ago for V2...
> 
> Any suggestions?  Any alternative sources for a formatter?  I guess I really should consider typing in the core of that formatter and adding it to RSTS.
> 
> 	paul
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