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- Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!mbg
- From: mbg@world.std.com (Megan B Gentry)
- Subject: Re: Qbus SMD drive question, Kennedy 5300 and Emulex SC02/A
- Message-ID: <BzErMq.4D1@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <CMM.0.90.0.724409822.bqt@Bern.DoCS.UU.SE> <1992Dec16.160955.11185@cs.cornell.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:44:49 GMT
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- chapman@cs.cornell.edu (Richard Chapman) writes:
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- >Johnny Billquist <bqt@bern.docs.uu.se> writes:
-
- >least move the heads over all the sectors) Under RT-11, FORMAT returns
- >in about 1 second and says that it has finished successfully. But then
- >RT-11 INIT indicates "Directory read error".
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- I'm not familiar with the specific device, but if it isn't a piece
- of Digital hardware, there is a possibility that FORMAT can't deal
- with it. I'm going to look at the FORMAT sources and see what it
- does, but I suspect that it tries to diddle the hardware directly,
- and unless the non-dec hardware simulated an RP EXACTLY, this may
- not work, but appear to, or vice versa.
-
- Megan
-