>
> >Tim Shoppa just noted that V5.7 of RT-11 allows an RX50 floppy drive
> >to FORMAT under RT-11, but I am not aware if that is for EVERY
> >RX50 floppy drive, OR ONLY the special ones that have been noted
> >as being able to do a FORMAT on a Rainbow. Either you (Allison)
> >or Megan Gentry or someone else mentioned that recently. And I
> >don't know if all RQDX1,2,3 are included.
>
> I've not yet tried formatting an RX50 with V5.7, but I suspect that
> it requires 1) an RX33 drive and 2) an RQDX3 (though maybe even the
> RQZX1 will work - I'll have to defer to Tim on this).
>
> When I was working on V5.6, the best we could do was format RX33s on
> an RX33 drive... if you attemped to format an RX50 on an RX33 drive,
> you got an RX33-formatted RX50 which was neither 1) usable or
> 2) reformattable to RX50.
>
> Megan Gentry
> Former RT-11 Developer
The only trick I know when trying to make 360, 400, 800 k disks on
a 1.2 floppy drive is to use good bulk-erased media.
Bill
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Received on Sun Jun 06 1999 - 10:10:51 BST