I have a two-board Q-bus Controller for 8" hard disks. Having no use for
same, and not wishing to "go there" I'm hoping someone in this group is
curious enough to send me $6.20 for postage via USPS Priority mail, as I
don't think they'll make the 2-lb limit, being fully loaded enough to have
no identifying silkscreen markings to indicate who made them.
Any takers?
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: Formatting disk on rt11
>>>Alternatively, if you have a VS2000, it has a RQDX3-compabitle
>>> formatter built into it.
>
>>I just formatted the disk in a MVII with the diagnostic tape.
>
>Or - maybe you didn't :-(. The MVII diagnostics are worse than useless.
>
>>>What error message do you get when you try DIR DU0: ? If it's a
>>>"?DIR-F-Error reading directory",
>
>>I still get this one ...
>
>Then you didn't format the RD54 successfully. The best you can hope
>for with the MVII diagnostics is to turn an already formatted RD54
>into a formatted RD54. The worst that can happen is that you
>lose an already existing format.
>
>Let me know what media it'd be useful to you on, and I'll get you a
>bootable XXDP disk/pack/cart/tape with ZRQC?? on it.
>
>>.INIT Du0:
>>DU0: Initialize are you sure ?Y
>>?DUP-F-Size function failed
>
>Yep - you need to really reformat the disk, as opposed to what the MVII
>diagnosics do. And congratulations on actually posting the command
>you used and the error message that resulted!! If only everyone else
>on the list could do the same, it'd be a much nicer world!!
>
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Received on Fri Jun 04 1999 - 20:59:00 BST