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Article #980Re: Request of Floppy Info (FAQ???)
From: Ghost in the -Turing- Machine
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1991 16:37
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1991 16:37
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hulaw1.harvard.edu!peregrin@HUSC6.HARVARD.EDU quotes me as saying:
> petersen@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu:
> >
> >
> > The Rainbow uses a DEC disk called an RX-50K, I think. The RX-50K is
> > supplied with a strange, low-level format already applied to it. You can
> > create this format on any HD and most DD disks if you have some of the
> > support programs for CCPM-86.
>
> CPM? Aaaaaghhhh! That was before my time . . . What do us DOS users
> do?
>
I dunno. Punt? From the drafty attick of my memory come no solutions to
the problem. I can make any disk into an RX-50K on CCPM and any disk into an
RX-33 on VMS, but I have no idea how to do the low-level formatting necessary
from MS-DOS. Sadly, I "lost" my technical documentation (on purpose) during
my next-to-last move. It had a complete description of the RX-50 low-level
format...
-Chris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!VUCTRVAX.BITNET!PETERSEN From: PETERSEN@VUCTRVAX.BITNET (Ghost in the -Turing- Machine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: Re: Request of Floppy Info (FAQ???) Message-ID: <BAA2FB0C006067A0@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu> Date: 5 Apr 91 16:37:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 30