Okay, I'm back from a DR exercise and have started trying to get
this PDP-11/73 working with RT-11. I have a copy of the XXDP
formatter now, and trying to format the hard drive gives this
error:
Unit Cylinders Drive Name
0 1225 RD54
1 RX50 Diskette (UNFORMATABLE)
2 RX50 Diskette (UNFORMATABLE)
MSCP Controller Model: 19
Microcode Version: 1
ZRQC SYS FTL ERR 00007 ON UNIT 00 TST 001 SUB 000 PC: 105742
Controller has reported a fatal error in the FORMAT program.
Status: FCT write error (check write protect switch)
Drive 0 was not formatted successfully.
ZRQC EOP 1
1 TOTAL ERRS
Since this drive worked fine under VMS before I started the
conversion, I am starting to think there is a jumper on either
the RQDX3 or the RD54 that has to be changed to use the drive
under RT-11, since the write protect switch is NOT enabled (I
even toggled it to make sure).
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Eric Dittman
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Received on Sat Nov 03 2001 - 22:45:14 GMT