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From: movshon@acf8.UUCP (Tony Movshon)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Formatting floppies for a Micro PDP-11?
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Date: Tue, 9-Sep-86 21:17:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  9 21:17:00 1986
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> I've just inherited a Micro PDP-11 running
> V7M-11 and the documentation for formatting
> 5 1/4" floppies using the RX50 disk drive is
> non-existent. Does anyone know if its possible
> to format disks without having to buy
> DEC pre-formatted disks? and if possible, HOW??
> 
> Glen Goto 

The only RX50 controller that supports formatting "foreign" disks is
the one in the Rainbow. I imagine that if you find someone with a
Rainbow, you can get him/her to format a bunch of disks for you; they
should be OK in the 11/73. Otherwise, you're out of luck.

				Tony Movshon

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