Substitute for DEC SS/QD Floppies

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Wed Jun 11 23:29:01 2003

At 10:01 PM 6/11/03 -0500, you wrote:
>On 10 Jun 2003, Barry Skidmore wrote:
>
> > I am looking for blank disks to use in a DEC RX50 drive. I have seen
> > posted several places that DD disks can be used, but so far my attempts
> > to initialize Verbatim DS/DD disks under RT-11 have failed:
> >
> > "?DUP-F-Size function failed"
>
>You can't format RX50's with any Dec PDP-11 hardware. You probably can
>with a VAXstation 2000, or using a PC and the proper software - there's
>instructions for doing it under Linux with a 1.2MB floppy drive and DSDD
>disks on the web. If you want to I can probably find them.

Get yourself a Dec-Rainbow to format them :) or the Pro380 IIRC will
format RX-50's :)
Received on Wed Jun 11 2003 - 23:29:01 BST

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