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<p>Doesn't ODS2 tool work with these?</p>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Simh <simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com> on behalf of Bob Eager <rde@tavi.co.uk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> March 20, 2017 4:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> simh@trailing-edge.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Simh] VAX 8200</font>
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<div class="PlainText">That is correct. The 360kB drives are only 40 track. The 1.2MB drives<br>
are 80 track.<br>
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:53:57 -0600<br>
khandy21yo <khandy21yo@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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> I think you need 1.2M floppy drives for this. I seem to remember<br>
> THAT 360k drives don't work for reading RX50s.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Sent from my Galaxy TabŪ A<br>
> -------- Original message --------From: Paul Koning<br>
> <paulkoning@comcast.net> Date: 3/20/17 6:45 AM (GMT-07:00) To:<br>
> Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks@gmail.com> Cc: SIMH <simh@trailing-edge.com><br>
> Subject: Re: [Simh] VAX 8200 <br>
> <br>
> > On Mar 19, 2017, at 11:33 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks@gmail.com><br>
> > wrote:<br>
> > <br>
> > ...<br>
> > I have a number of ways to read RX50s, but nothing is presently set<br>
> > up and plugged in for that. I'll have to dust something off and<br>
> > get it going.<br>
> <br>
> PCs can read RX50s if you have a 5.25 inch drive. DOS, or old enough<br>
> versions of Windows that you can issue BIOS calls work. On Linux,<br>
> you can set the floppy parameters to 80 tracks, 10 sectors, single<br>
> sided, and then standard utilities like dd will work. If you have a<br>
> floppy image you may need to process the interleaving to get to an<br>
> image other file system utilities will handle.<br>
> <br>
> My FLX utility (on my Subversion server or in simhtools) can do<br>
> this. I have a newer version in Python that can be used as a<br>
> library, and includes an interleave/de-interleave tool.<br>
> <br>
> paul<br>
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