>Modern drives don't seem to mind missing shutters, and all of the early
>drives that I've tried are happy with modern diskettes with the shutter
>removed. So try taking the shutter off of a diskette and see whether
>that makes the drive happy.
Thanks, Fred...
I'll have to try it again...
The next part of the problem is trying to find such a drive to
put on an -11, interfaced in such a way so that I can read/write
the diskette. Then I could try loading up an RT-11 monitor and
see if we can get the thing to boot.
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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