DEC RXV21 with 5.25 floppy

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Mon May 28 16:06:35 2001

On 27 May, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> > If yours is a copy of the GR RXV21 then it should not only be able to
> > format disks,

> BINGO!
> tic, tic, tic, tic, ...
> Can you hear this?
> It is the MXV21 formating a disk. :-)

:-)

> simply do a
> d/p/w 20001E78 109
> d/p/w 20001E7A 92
> at the VAX console and the drive starts to format. OK. The next step is
> to write data to the medium and read them back.
> [a bit later]
> Ahhh, reading / writing and DMA from / to memory does work also. :-)))

Excellent! If you need any more info from the GR manual, just ask.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York

Received on Mon May 28 2001 - 16:06:35 BST