Professional Computer FAQ

Thread View: comp.sys.dec.micro

6 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

6 total messages Started by Chaim R. Dworkin Wed, 05 Aug 1992 14:45

#37

Author: Chaim R. Dworkin
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 14:45

15 lines
938 bytes


Well, it's been since March that I last posted my Professional computer
faq so I guess I might as well post it again.  It has expanded from 45K
in the last version to 65K in the current version.  I apologize for the
large size but since there is so little support for the PRO I purposely
included as much useful information as possible.

As usual, I welcome all comments, suggestions, additions.

The faq will be in the next posting.

 
Chaim R. Dworkin
chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu

Re: Professional Computer FAQ

#41

Author: Barry Kort
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 00:08

5 lines
525 bytes

Many thanks, Chaim!  It's a Gold Mine of Information!  :)

Regards,

Barry Kort

Re: Professional Computer FAQ

#42

Author: Charles Lasner
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 04:03

17 lines
1287 bytes

In article <BARRY.92Aug7200856@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu> barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort) writes:
>Many thanks, Chaim!  It's a Gold Mine of Information!  :)
>
>Regards,
>
>Barry Kort

I am preparing an RX50 FAQ which will be an all-inclusive guide to all of the
formatting issues, etc., as well as prevailing conversion programs available
on PC's, etc.

This will obsolete a small portion of the PRO FAQ (I wrote the part in 
question) so perhaps it should be deleted in favor of a pointer to this
new RX50 FAQ when available.  Some of the issues are non-PRO as well in the
RX50 FAQ, but are of interest to any user of RX50-compatible stuff, etc.

cjl

Re: Professional Computer FAQ

#43

Author: Barry Kort
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 15:13

20 lines
1281 bytes

In reading Chaim's FAQ, I was surprised to see a paragraph toward the
beginning that said that the PRO could handle the RD53 71MB hard disk.

Can anyone verify this?  Does it matter if I am on a PRO 350 or 380?
Does it matter if I am on P/OS or Venix?  

I tried to put an RD53 in a PRO and got an HD diagnostic message upon
power up.  

I also found that Venix 1.0 wouldn't recognize the RD52 38MB HD (it
formatted it as if it were an RD50 5MB HD).

I'm still looking for Venix 2.1 for the PRO (Dan Lanciani are you still
out there?).

Also, now that we have TeleDisk, shall we set up some FTP archives for
PRO software?  Is this something that DECUS could be doing, so as to
bypass the overhead of Media/Copying charges?

Barry Kort

Re: Professional Computer FAQ

#52

Author: 25612-waelder
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 01:21

35 lines
2056 bytes

In article <BARRY.92Aug8111328@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu>, barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort) writes:
> In reading Chaim's FAQ, I was surprised to see a paragraph toward the
> beginning that said that the PRO could handle the RD53 71MB hard disk.
> 
> Can anyone verify this?  Does it matter if I am on a PRO 350 or 380?
> Does it matter if I am on P/OS or Venix?  
> 
> I tried to put an RD53 in a PRO and got an HD diagnostic message upon
> power up.  
> 
I have a RD53 in my PRO and it works fine. I'm running P/OS
2.3 ( Don't quote me, I know that it's 2. Something) and I did
have to trick it to load the disk.

Initially, I tried to install directly to the RD53 but the DEC
installation software was smart enough to check the disk and
refused to do anything with the RD53.

I then reinstalled the origional RD51 and performed the full
installation, which went smoothly.

I then used a RX50 bootable BRU disk. This backups the RD51
onto RX50's. I backed up the disk. This took several boxes of
RX50's. 

I then switch back to the RD53, and again booted the BRU disk
asking it to restore from the RX50's to the hard disk. Well,
BRU really did not care about the hardware, just if I wanted
it to format and initialize the disk. This is useful if you
had to replace a defective disk. I said YES and it went ahead
formatting the RD53 and restored all the RX50's.

I then booted the PRO with the RD53. I came up as it should,
but even with the OS & a couple languages installed, I had
over 100K free blocks of disk space!

Re: Professional Computer FAQ

#65

Author: Barry Kort
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 00:12

3 lines
736 bytes

I found that I could use the RD53 on the PRO 380 (but not the 350).
I had to move the Drive Select Jumper on the HD to DS1 before it
would work.  --Barry

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads