DEC Rainbow disks - help

[Tony Duell]

> 
> I just acquired a Rainbow with ~10 boxes of disks.
> Most are for DOS it seems, though some for cpm/86.
> Could someone explain the differences between the
> types of media meant to run on this puter, whether it
> has to do with os, or physical properties (soft
> sectored, hard sectored, RX50...). I also have access

The RX50 drive (used in the Rainbow, and for that matter the Pro) is a 80 
cylinder single-sided drive. The Rainbow (and Pro) have soft-sectored 
double-density controllers, and store about 360K on each disk. 

These parameters are independant of the OS used. 

-tony