I'll give that a try, thanks Chris.
The hardware supports multiple drives just fine (one per controller). The
power supply shuts down with three hard drives, though, the surge current is
too high. I could work around that if I ever needed two. Two drives is not a
problem, and my RSTS code supports this.
paul
> On Jan 14, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hm. I remember that POS 2.0 and above would just format the hard disk and go
> during the install. Likewise I don't know if you can have multiple hard disks
> in P/OS so that's a pain in the tail.
>
> Boot from floppies and just init the raw disk.
>
> C
>
>
> On 1/14/2021 11:39 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>> I'm wondering how to do hard drive formatting, which is likely to be needed
>> when working with emulated disks in David Gesswein's MFM emulator.
>> As far as I can tell, RT-11 can do this. At least I have a source code
>> printout for such a formatter. But while I can find a hard drive image of
>> RT V5 for Pro, I haven't found any floppy-bootable images. And I think it's
>> a bit tricky to create one. I knew, long ago for V2...
>> Any suggestions? Any alternative sources for a formatter? I guess I really
>> should consider typing in the core of that formatter and adding it to RSTS.
>> paul
