Well, I learned that not all drives that look like ST-506, are... Turns out
the drive I was going to use is a Micropolis 1355, which is an ESDI drive.
So it won't work with the RQDX3.
I guess that drive goes back on the shelf until something else comes along.
Thanks for all the info on the formatt
On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 09:32:00AM -0400, Peter Ekstrom wrote:
> Is there such a
> thing as an MFM drive emulator that would plug in to the RQDX3 as
> a real drive would?
>
Yes.
https://www.pdp8online.com/mfm/
Hi Chuck,
Lou did reach out to me and shared a copy of his document. (If you read
this Lou, thank you!) I haven't yet, but I plan to go through it and learn
(I know I will) lots of good stuff. I did come across the thread you
mention with your spreadsheet and I also plan to make good use of it. Th
Search the list back in late 2018, there is a thread with the same subject.
There is a link to a spreadsheet in that thread that has the calculations
for new drive sizes.
Lou and I sort of worked out the details without knowledge of each other
and he had a nice document describing how to create a
I don't have the source, but I had great success octal-patching my copy a
few years ago, made it work with a Maxtor xt-11something instead of the
real rd54 / xt-2190.
I'll reply again if I can find the instructions for doing it. Just
followed recipe from some guy's website and it worked perfect.
Did Lou ever publish somewhere his notes on patching ZRQCH0?
Back from around almost 10 years ago:
https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/patching-zrqch0-to-use-any-geometry-mfm-hard-disk-on-rqdx3.39318/
Is Lou still around? Looks like he hasn't posted on VCFed in a few years.
On Thu, Oct 2
