--- Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com> wrote:
>
> I have been asked to see if I can transfer the contents of some 8"
> disks...[ from ] a DEC Minc 11.
A MINC-11 is just a PDP-11 in a special box that lets you mount
laboratory modules in the front and connect lab I/O leads inside
and from module to module. It also came with drivers for numerous
modules and typically an IBV11 GPIB card.
> Using PUTR, I have tried mounting the disk as /RX01 and /RT11,
> /FOREIGN, and even /OS8 at separate times...
It's not OS8. It might be RT11, but AFAIK, all MINCs shipped with RX02
drives and those are an odd duck for format. You will probably need a
real RX02 drive to read them. It's not a software formatting issue, it's
a hardware formatting issue. You are getting data errors in all likelyhood
because your hardware can't decode the bits themselves. Changing tools
won't help. ISTR the headers are single density, but the data portion of
the track is double density, but I've never tried to read them in anything
but a real RX02 drive.
If you have the real hardware, you could copy the files onto RX01 disks
and read _them_ in your PC.
-ethan
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices
http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Received on Fri Apr 20 2001 - 15:26:35 BST