RD53 formatter

From: Jonathan Engdahl <engdahl_at_cle.ab.com>
Date: Thu Jul 5 08:34:11 2001

Here's a clip from my website with some pointers:

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XXDP -- I downloaded this, but haven't used it yet. It is my
understanding that this is required to setup the RQDX3.
manual: http://www.conknet.com/~w_kranz/pdp11/xxdpdoc.txt

software:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-
11/xxdp/


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I'm probably going to face some of the same problems you are
facing. I'm still using the Andromeda UDC11 on my 11/53, which
works well, but I've got several RQDX3's I'll eventually have to
get working. I'm in the process of building several 11/53's from
scrounged parts.

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Jonathan Engdahl             Rockwell Automation
Principal Research Engineer  24800 Tungsten Road
Advanced Technology          Euclid, OH 44117  USA
Euclid Labs                  http://users.safeaccess.com/engdahl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Carman" <pdp11_at_bellsouth.net>
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp11,vmsnet.pdp-11
To: <classiccmp>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 8:52 AM
Subject: RD53 formatter
> I have a PDP-11/83 with an RQDX3 disk controller and a pair of
RD53
> drives from a MicroVAX II.  Since all I can get from both
drives are I/O
> errors, I am left to assume that they were once hooked to an
RQDX2
> controller and now need to be re-low-level formatted to work
with the
> RQDX3.  Does anyone know what is required to do this on an
11/83?  Was
> there an XXDP diagnostic program that did this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Doug Carman
> pdp11_at_bellsouth.net
>

Received on Thu Jul 05 2001 - 08:34:11 BST