On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:29 PM Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I do have a card around here called an RXV21 from Plessy or something > like that, maybe it could talk to an RX01 drive and format the disks? >
Several of the 3rd party controllers could low level format disks. For example: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/microTechnology/MXV21_floppyCtlr.pdf http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sigmaInformationSystems/SDC-RXV21um_1981.pdf