7 May
2007
7 May
'07
7:36 a.m.
Can the Pro380 be used with RX33 drives in place of the RX50? The Pro
technical manual doesn't say anything about the RX33. It also doesn't
say that there is a way to change the floppy data rate, so I am guessing
it does not support them.
Can the Pro380 be used with any ST506/ST412 type hard disks or just
RD50, RD51, and RD52? I have a couple RD32 and some non-DEC drives and
am curious if any of the could be used with it. How do you format a
drive for a Pro? I never noticed any support for Professionals in XXDP?
Was there a utility in P/OS for that purpose?
-chuck
7 May
7 May
10:54 a.m.
On Sun, 6 May 2007, Charles H. Dickman wrote:
Can the Pro380 be used with any ST506/ST412 type hard
disks or just RD50,
RD51, and RD52? I have a couple RD32 and some non-DEC drives and am curious
if any of the could be used with it. How do you format a drive for a Pro? I
never noticed any support for Professionals in XXDP? Was there a utility in
P/OS for that purpose?
You're pretty much limited to what the driver supports unless you want
to do some hacking.
I've used a 350 with an ST-251, but I worked over the RT-11 device
driver. And I never did get it working exactly right; every now and then
the driver would make a zooping noise like it was doing a long seek when
going to adjacent cylinders. Never did figure that one out.
--
roger ivie
rivie at ridgenet.net
3:07 p.m.
On 07/05/2007 03:06, Charles H. Dickman wrote:
Can the Pro380 be used with RX33 drives in place of
the RX50? The Pro
technical manual doesn't say anything about the RX33. It also doesn't
say that there is a way to change the floppy data rate, so I am guessing
it does not support them.
I don't think so, but others may know more.
Can the Pro380 be used with any ST506/ST412 type hard
disks or just
RD50, RD51, and RD52? I have a couple RD32 and some non-DEC drives and
am curious if any of the could be used with it. How do you format a
drive for a Pro? I never noticed any support for Professionals in XXDP?
Was there a utility in P/OS for that purpose?
I guess you need to format it the way you would for an RQDX1, with XXDP.
I do know that it shares some low-level code with the early RQDXs, and
uses similar sniffers to determine the drive type, so you can't just use
any drive -- it has to look like one of the ones a Pro supports.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
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