DEC (Minc 11?) RX01 disks and PUTR

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Apr 20 16:02:21 2001

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 healyzh_at_aracnet.com wrote:

> > disks to PC compatible disks. A CP/M disk has offered no challenge,
> > but I am stopped dead on a disk whose label indicates that it was
> > for use on a DEC Minc 11.
> >
> > Using PUTR, I have tried mounting the disk as /RX01 and /RT11,
> > /FOREIGN, and even /OS8 at separate times. However, whenever I
>
> If the disk is from a MINC-11, then it was almost definitly running RT-11.
> However, I suspect it was an RX02 drive that it was written in.

Likely, however, the disk in question is punched as a `flippy' so it is
unlikely that it was written as as RX02.
 
> Unfortunatly I'm not that familiar with PUTR, having only used it a couple
> times, and I don't know what it might support in the way of 8" floppy
> drives.
>
> If you can make a disk image of the floppy, you might have better luck
> accessing that with PUTR.

I think you may be right, but it is going to be a long laborious process
as AnaDisk insists on posting a separate Data Error message for each
sector in each track before doing anything else. CopyQM simply rejects
it!
                                                 - don
 
> Zane
>
Received on Fri Apr 20 2001 - 16:02:21 BST