DEC Pro hard drive formatter

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Thu Jan 14 10:39:05 CST 2021


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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