DQ614: was Re: What did you ask "Santa" ...

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sat Dec 29 05:15:47 2001

On Dec 28, 14:30, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> Amazing! Now the question is, does anyone know which HD's will work with
> this? I just might have to go digging through storage in the very near
> future!

The manual had a "non-exclusive" list of drives known to work; it suggested
that just about anything should be OK. The formatter lets you set things
like step pulse rate/seek time, heads, cylinders, etc.

> The other question is, once the disk is formated, does it matter what you
> use for an OS on it, or does it need to be RT-11? I was hoping to be
able
> to use this board for OS's that expect RL02's instead of MSCP disks.

As far as I know, once the drive is formatted, it uses the standard driver.
 Assuming the formatting stores the setup details on the drive, I don't see
why it shouldn't be possible to use another OS afterwards.

I no longer have my DQ614, so I can't test it for you :-(

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Sat Dec 29 2001 - 05:15:47 GMT

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