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From: NEVILLE%umass-cs.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (Neville D. Newman)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
Subject: need to read CP/M files on microVAX drives
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Date: Mon, 21-Apr-86 08:55:43 EST
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The MicroVAX floppy drives are RX50's, the same as used in the Rainbow.
We have a version of an old Unix program which read 8" CP/M disks from
the console floppy of a VAX, but are having a hard time converting it
to work for the 5.25" RX50's.  Most of the problem stems from the face
that we can't get good documentation on interleave factors, reserved
tracks/sectors, etc. used by the MicroVAX.  If anyone has tackled this
problem, i would really like to hear from you.  i hate looking at raw
dumps.

						-neville
					CSNET:	neville@umass