[Numerous questions on using non-DEC ST506/MFM drives on DEC machines]
>If I were to Find a Micropolis or CDC drive that fit some larger DEC
>equivalent on CYL/SPT/Heads MFM ST506 RPM etc what would stop me from
>generating a workable drive profile?
>
>Anyone done this?
Yeah, sure, folks have been doing this for about a decade and a half.
See, in particular,
ftp://ftp.spc.edu/third-party-disks.txt
At a minimum, before getting any further, you're going to need some
way to format arbitrary MFM drives to what the DEC controllers will
expect for a low-level format, either a VS2000 with its built-in
console formatter, or one of the DEC XXDP formatters (ZRQB for the
RQDX2, ZRQC for the RQDX3) and a PDP-11 to run them on.
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Received on Fri Dec 03 1999 - 15:46:14 GMT