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In article <1992Dec11.231842.1775@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) writes:
> bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright) writes:
>>I do not believe that the Rainbow ever officially supported that drive;
>>certainly the standard DEC hard disk drive formmater did not know about
>>it.  I didn't necessarily mean that the drive wasn't used in _some_ DEC
>>machines, but it wasn't supported on the Rainbow and the Rainbow software
>>knew _nothing_ about it.  You need third-party software in order to use it.
>>I think the point was that by the time the ST-225 was out, DEC had already
>>effectively given up on the Rainbow.
> 
> Charles is right.  The DEC formatting software can indeed format an
> ST225 (whatever approx. 20M capacity drive they offer works, probably
> the RD-31).  Anyway, I know because I did it long before I ever got my
> hands on Wutil, though that would certainly work too.  As to whether an
> RD-31 is actually a DEC relabelled St225, probably, but who knows!
> I remember hearing that DEC wanted an astronomical price for their
> relabelled drives, but that is another story.  And besides that, my
> second hand ST225 didn't live long  :-(

Must have been close to the time DEC dropped the Rainbow then.  I'm
quite sure that when we first got ST225's to upgrade from the old 5MB
ST506 drives, that we had to get WUTIL then because the DEC disk
formatting software would not recognize the drive.

Bruce C. Wright