>Hi all,
>
>How can I format a rd54 disk on a rt11 5.3 ?
>
>(disk & floppy are on RQDX3 controller)
>
>Doing something like
>
>.FORMAT DU0:
>
>i get "device not supported, ...)
You need the ZRQC?? formatter on bootable XXDP+ media for your machine.
Do you have a RX50 floppy? RX33 floppy? TK50? RL02? RX02? I can
get you the formatter on just about any media... (it *should* have shipped
with your machine in the first place, but someone may have misplaced
the disks at least once in the past decade or so.)
Alternatively, if you have a VS2000, it has a RQDX3-compabitle formatter
built into it.
>P.S. Booting from DU1: works, so the controller & driver should be OK.
>Trying accesses to DU0: I see the LED of the disk drive on.
What error message do you get when you try DIR DU0: ? If it's a
"?DIR-F-Error reading directory", or a "?DIR-F-Input error", then you probably
do need to low-level-format the drive. If you get a
"?DIR-F-Invalid directory", then you probably only need to INIT DU0:
to make it usable.
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Received on Fri Jun 04 1999 - 17:00:14 BST