I think you need 1.2M floppy drives for this. I seem to remember THAT 360k
drives don't work for reading RX50s.
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-------- Original message --------From: Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net>
Date: 3/20/17 6:45 AM (GMT-07:00) To: Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> Cc:
SIMH <simh@trailing-edge.com> Subject: Re: [Simh] VAX 8200
> On Mar 19, 2017, at 11:33 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...
> I have a number of ways to read RX50s, but nothing is presently set up
> and plugged in for that. I'll have to dust something off and get it
> going.
PCs can read RX50s if you have a 5.25 inch drive. DOS, or old enough versions
of Windows that you can issue BIOS calls work. On Linux, you can set the
floppy parameters to 80 tracks, 10 sectors, single sided, and then standard
utilities like dd will work. If you have a floppy image you may need to
process the interleaving to get to an image other file system utilities will
handle.
My FLX utility (on my Subversion server or in simhtools) can do this. I have a
newer version in Python that can be used as a library, and includes an
interleave/de-interleave tool.
paul
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