[cctalk] Re: RQDX3's: Lessons learned.

2023-02-05 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Feb 3, 2023, at 10:48 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > I may try an RD53 in one of my Pro/380's. It's about time I loaded up the > final version of P/OS, as I can use the Gotek floppy to load everything > instead of screwing with the RX50's. Or can I do that and switch disk

[cctalk] Re: RQDX3's: Lessons learned.

2023-02-05 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Thank you, good information. Found this from Midwest systems. They were a solid reseller back in the 1980's and this is probably the best first person vendor supported info on jumper settings for RQDX3's. READ BEFORE INSTALLING DISK DRIVE 2/89 R

[cctalk] Re: RQDX3's: Lessons learned.

2023-02-04 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
Some other good sources of information: PDP-11 Diagnostic Database - module "ZRQC" http://www.retrocmp.com/tools/pdp-11-diagnostic-database/202-pdp-11-diagnostics-database RQDX3 firmware source code. Not sure what version this is. http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/qbus/rqdxx/rqdx3_src.zip

[cctalk] Re: RQDX3's: Lessons learned.

2023-02-04 Thread Pete Turnbull via cctalk
On 04/02/2023 14:37, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: On 2023-02-03 22:48, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: Is it just the ROMs, or also some HW changes? Do we have backup of the newer versions? http://www.dunnington.info/public/DECROMs/ http://www.dunnington.info/public/DECROMs/ROMlist It's just th

[cctalk] Re: RQDX3's: Lessons learned.

2023-02-04 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 4:44 AM emanuel stiebler via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 2023-02-03 22:48, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > > > 2) There are at least two RQDX3 ROM sets. The earlier one does not > > support the RX33 floppy and doesn't give any info during formatting. The > > lat

[cctalk] Re: RQDX3's: Lessons learned.

2023-02-04 Thread emanuel stiebler via cctalk
On 2023-02-03 22:48, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: 2) There are at least two RQDX3 ROM sets. The earlier one does not support the RX33 floppy and doesn't give any info during formatting. The later version (Version 4) does support the RX33 and is a lot nicer. Is it just the ROMs, or also some H