Hi,
Patrick Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com> said:
> 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.
Also putr for DOS:
http://www.dbit.com/
Although I've not been able to persuade my RX50 to read disks formatted
by it, but I've not really tried hard yet...
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Received on Thu Jun 12 2003 - 13:30:00 BST