VMS 4.7 was VAXstation 3100 history (Was ... different)

From: Truthan,Larry <truthanl_at_oclc.org>
Date: Fri Dec 3 16:14:01 1999

Thanks for the thread.

I have I Plessy 6700 PDP 11/24 work-alike, But its native drive is SCSI.
I will Check into alternate controllers / formatters.

DEC Model numbering is greek to me

  Sincerely

Larry Truthan


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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