RD53 formatter

From: W.B. <hofmanwb_at_worldonline.nl>
Date: Thu Jul 5 12:49:24 2001

Doug,


Run ZRQCH0 under XXDP(+?) to format the RD's. If your 11/83 has a serial
line at 176500/300 you can even load XXDP from a PC emulating a TU58. I
routinely do this.

Wim
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> From: Doug Carman <pdp11_at_bellsouth.net>
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: RD53 formatter
> Date: Thursday, July 05, 2001 2:52 PM
>
> 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
>
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