Data Systems Design DSD-880 8" floppy and hard drive?

From: Bob Shannon <bshannon_at_tiac.net>
Date: Mon Jul 21 17:49:14 2003

RT-11, the DSD boxes cannot use stock DEC drivers.

Jerome H. Fine wrote:

>>Stuart Johnson wrote:
>>
>
>>I had one of these boards connected to a pair of Qume (851) drives back in
>>the early 80's. They worked GREAT, could read, write, and format RX01, RX02,
>>and with a modified driver, did DSDD for about 1.2mb per floppy!
>>
>
>Jerome Fine replies:
>
>Which operating system had the modified drivers? I use RT-11
>and DEC never bothered to write a driver for an RX03.
>
>>I wish I had one of these controllers now (I have a pair of 8" drives).
>>
>
>There are controllers available for the DSD-880 which interface
>on the Qbus for both the RX03 and the 8" hard drive. Unfortunately,
>the current hardware set-up handles only ONE RX03 in addition
>to the 8" hard drive.
>
>Sincerely yours,
>
>Jerome Fine
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