Hi Steve:
See my web site,
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/pdp8 for drive diagnostic and
troubleshooting information.
Kevin
>
> I've been trying to bring my old RX02 drive back to life, with little
> success.
>
> I just received a good bootable floppy, and get the same results as with all
> my old disks, so now I'm looking for hardware problems.
>
> On a PDP-11/03, With RXV21 controller, and an RX02 drive, the RX02
> initializes, attempts to read the boot block, and crashes to ODT at 000600.
>
>
> > In examining what my system reads as it attempts to boot, it looks like I
> > read every other 128 byte chunk correctly. I haven't figured out a
> pattern
> > to the corrupt sections.
>
>
> Does anyone have any RX02 diagnostics, or hardware trouble shooting tips?
>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD
mcquiggi_at_sfu.ca
Received on Tue Aug 03 1999 - 19:29:04 BST