Re: DEC 3100, & RX23 diskette drive

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From: Allan E Johannesen
Date: Fri, 03 May 1991 16:13

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On 1 May 91 23:02:00 GMT,
jahn@guinness.Idbsu.EDU (Greg Jahn) said:
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jahn> Briefly, does anyone know of a 'free' way to use this diskette
jahn> drive to format and write onto diskettes which PC's (DOS) could
jahn> use?

jahn> I'm running Ultrix and can ftp source from other systems via the
jahn> internet.  Thanks in advance, for, ... whatever.

There is software at psuvax1.cs.psu.edu in pub/src/mtools

Someone obtained a copy here which I modified and installed.  Unless
it was an "older" copy, it didn't have formatting code other than for
Sun.  The other functions seem to work for low density diskettes.

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