RX02 drives / RT11

[Lyle Bickley]

On Monday 18 September 2006 18:53, Gary E Kaufman wrote:
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> The only media that seems to work fine is "real" RX02 media.
>
> Is the RX02 incapable of formatting it's own media?  Is there a common
> hardware problem that I should look for?  Filter caps?  Clean the
> stepper motor?

The RX02 cannot format "raw" diskettes. It can "re-format" RX01 diskettes to 
RX02 format diskettes and vice-versa. Software is available for both the 
PDP-11 and PDP-8 to do so.

RX01 diskettes are essentially IBM System/34 compatible diskettes; i.e., IBM 
3470 format.

One can "create" IBM 3470/RX01 diskettes using "PUTR" on a PC which has a FDC 
connected to an 8" Shugart floppy diskette drive.

See: http://www.dbit.com/fdadap.html for an excellent 8" floppy adapter for a 
PC.

Cheers,
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com

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