That is correct. The 360kB drives are only 40 track. The 1.2MB drives are 80 track.
On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:53:57 -0600 khandy21yo <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you need 1.2M floppy drives for this. I seem to remember > THAT 360k drives don't work for reading RX50s. > > > Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A > -------- Original message --------From: Paul Koning > <[email protected]> Date: 3/20/17 6:45 AM (GMT-07:00) To: > Ethan Dicks <[email protected]> Cc: SIMH <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Simh] VAX 8200 > > > On Mar 19, 2017, at 11:33 PM, Ethan Dicks <[email protected]> > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
