8" floppy drive for PC, RS/6000, 68k Mac or Alpha

From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
Date: Sun Jan 25 04:01:15 2004

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:55:34 -0600
Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com> wrote:

> I want one. I can use a PCI, ISA, EISA, MCA (PS/2 or RS/6k), NuBus
>
> or QBus adapter. The main requirement is that hardware + software be
> able to low-level format disks to RX02.
There are RX02 clones out there with standard Shugart interface. Some
(all?) are able to low level format disks. I have one of those QBus
cards and wrote a NetBSD driver for it. As I had no 8" drive I connected
a 5.25" drive with a self made adapter cable. All I needed for low level
formating was at the VAX boot prompt:
Single density
d/p/w 20001E78 9
d/p/w 20001E7A 92

Double density
d/p/w 20001E78 109
d/p/w 20001E7A 92
-- 
tsch??,
       Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
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