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- From: bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
- Subject: Re: Rainbow 100+
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.221053.5894@ais.com>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 22:10:53 GMT
- References: <1992Dec8.210008.5888@ais.com> <1992Dec10.003626.599@news.columbia.edu> <1992Dec11.113407.5893@ais.com> <1992Dec11.231842.1775@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Organization: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill, NC
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- In article <1992Dec11.231842.1775@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) writes:
- > bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright) writes:
- >>I do not believe that the Rainbow ever officially supported that drive;
- >>certainly the standard DEC hard disk drive formmater did not know about
- >>it. I didn't necessarily mean that the drive wasn't used in _some_ DEC
- >>machines, but it wasn't supported on the Rainbow and the Rainbow software
- >>knew _nothing_ about it. You need third-party software in order to use it.
- >>I think the point was that by the time the ST-225 was out, DEC had already
- >>effectively given up on the Rainbow.
- >
- > Charles is right. The DEC formatting software can indeed format an
- > ST225 (whatever approx. 20M capacity drive they offer works, probably
- > the RD-31). Anyway, I know because I did it long before I ever got my
- > hands on Wutil, though that would certainly work too. As to whether an
- > RD-31 is actually a DEC relabelled St225, probably, but who knows!
- > I remember hearing that DEC wanted an astronomical price for their
- > relabelled drives, but that is another story. And besides that, my
- > second hand ST225 didn't live long :-(
-
- Must have been close to the time DEC dropped the Rainbow then. I'm
- quite sure that when we first got ST225's to upgrade from the old 5MB
- ST506 drives, that we had to get WUTIL then because the DEC disk
- formatting software would not recognize the drive.
-
- Bruce C. Wright
-