Subject: Re: Using 1.2mb AT floppy drives on an RQDX3
To: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
From: Douglas Meade <inforum@umd5.umd.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/30/2001 10:56:47
I highly recommend the classic:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/hardware/third-party-disks.txt
Doug
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, NetBSD Bob wrote:
> Can someone explain how to use AT 1.2MB floppy drives on an RQDX3.
> I have this wilde hair that I want to try to load NetBSD or Ultrix
> from floppy as an aside on one of my MVII crates. IFF the hardware
> is compatible, and I think it is, even though the floppy formats
> are incompatible with the old RX50 things, all I need to do is mate
> up a 34 pin dip header cable off the back of the backplane firewall?
>
> What ID and jumpering is required?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
>