Re: DEC Pro hard drive formatter

2021-01-16 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Nice! If you'd like to be the greatest hero today, can you send me an image of an RD52 or RD53 of the latest P/OS and I'll load it on one of my drives here? (Save me 30 floppies, please :-) Did the images from Xhomer work? C On 1/16/2021 5:17 PM, Paul Koning wrote: I just tried what you

Re: DEC Pro hard drive formatter

2021-01-16 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
I just tried what you suggested (with P/OS 3.0) on an MFM emulator empty RD52 image, and indeed that works just fine. Thanks Chris! paul > On Jan 14, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk > wrote: > > Hm. I remember that POS 2.0 and above would just format the hard disk and go >

Re: DEC Pro hard drive formatter

2021-01-14 Thread Bjoren Davis via cctalk
I should point out that, as far as I know, you can't use the floppy and hard disk emulation of the DREM-2 at the same time; it's one or the other. --Bjoren On 1/14/2021 8:59 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: I've successfully used a DREM-2 (https://www.drem.info/) with my Pro 380 for both

Re: DEC Pro hard drive formatter

2021-01-14 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
On 1/14/2021 8:59 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: I've successfully used a DREM-2 (https://www.drem.info/) with my Pro 380 for both floppy and hard disk emulation. Cool! I just bought one of the G thingies ($30 on Amazon), will try loading up the modified firmware and see if it works.

Re: DEC Pro hard drive formatter

2021-01-14 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > I've successfully used a DREM-2 (https://www.drem.info/) with my Pro 380 > > for both floppy and hard disk emulation. > > Cool! I just bought one of the G thingies ($30 on Amazon), will try > loading up the modified firmware and see if it works. Just easier than > making an endless pile of

Re: DEC Pro hard drive formatter

2021-01-14 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 3:53 PM Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > So does a 380 support programs in split I/D? If not I need to start > hacking it to do so as 64k limits are for the birds... The Pro380 has a J-11 chip. It should support Split I just fine on any OS that knows about it. The real

Re: DEC Pro hard drive formatter

2021-01-14 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Cool! I just bought one of the G thingies ($30 on Amazon), will try loading up the modified firmware and see if it works. Just easier than making an endless pile of floppies I will only use once or twice (I already have the whole POS 2.0 set). So does a 380 support programs in split I/D? If

Re: DEC Pro hard drive formatter

2021-01-14 Thread Bjoren Davis via cctalk
I've successfully used a DREM-2 (https://www.drem.info/) with my Pro 380 for both floppy and hard disk emulation. --Bjoren On 1/14/2021 2:14 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: On 1/14/21 1:52 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On Jan 14, 2021, at 1:42 PM, Chris Zach wrote: ... Is

Re: DEC Pro hard drive formatter

2021-01-14 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 1/14/21 1:52 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On Jan 14, 2021, at 1:42 PM, Chris Zach wrote: ... Is there a hardware emulator that can emulate RX50's from images to a Pro? Been wondering that... Perhaps David Gesswein's MFM emulator could be modified to do that. You might ask him.

Re: DEC Pro hard drive formatter

2021-01-14 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
torsdag 14 januari 2021 skrev Paul Koning via cctalk : > > > > On Jan 14, 2021, at 1:42 PM, Chris Zach wrote: > > > > ... > > Is there a hardware emulator that can emulate RX50's from images to a > Pro? Been wondering that... As far as the releasnotes tell FlashFloppy by Keir Fraser support

Re: DEC Pro hard drive formatter

2021-01-14 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jan 14, 2021, at 1:42 PM, Chris Zach wrote: > > ... > Is there a hardware emulator that can emulate RX50's from images to a Pro? > Been wondering that... Perhaps David Gesswein's MFM emulator could be modified to do that. You might ask him. I don't think it does so out of the box,

Re: DEC Pro hard drive formatter

2021-01-14 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Hm. I did not know this, although the RMD process does show SY1: as well as SY0: so it makes sense. I'll have to try that. The power supply in the Pro is somewhat limited, wonder if you set the drives up to power up in sequence if it would hold. Longer term Pro project for me is to figure

Re: DEC Pro hard drive formatter

2021-01-14 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
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

Re: DEC Pro hard drive formatter

2021-01-14 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
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

DEC Pro hard drive formatter

2021-01-14 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
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