On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> --- Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have been asked to see if I can transfer the contents of some 8"
> > disks...[ from ] a DEC Minc 11.
>
> A MINC-11 is just a PDP-11 in a special box that lets you mount
> laboratory modules in the front and connect lab I/O leads inside
> and from module to module. It also came with drivers for numerous
> modules and typically an IBV11 GPIB card.
>
> > Using PUTR, I have tried mounting the disk as /RX01 and /RT11,
> > /FOREIGN, and even /OS8 at separate times...
>
> It's not OS8. It might be RT11, but AFAIK, all MINCs shipped with RX02
> drives and those are an odd duck for format. You will probably need a
> real RX02 drive to read them. It's not a software formatting issue, it's
> a hardware formatting issue. You are getting data errors in all likelyhood
> because your hardware can't decode the bits themselves. Changing tools
> won't help. ISTR the headers are single density, but the data portion of
> the track is double density, but I've never tried to read them in anything
> but a real RX02 drive.
But would the RX02 drive write such headers to an RX01 disk? Actually,
these are punched as `flippies'.
- don
> If you have the real hardware, you could copy the files onto RX01 disks
> and read _them_ in your PC.
>
>
> -ethan
>
>
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Received on Fri Apr 20 2001 - 16:05:57 BST