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[David Betz]

Wow! That's great. I hadn't thought of using VTserver. I'll download  
it and see if I can get it working. I guess that means I'll have to  
switch my MXV11 over to TU58 boot though.

On Nov 17, 2005, at 4:24 PM, Doc Shipley wrote:

> David Betz wrote:
>> Do you know if a PC controller for an MFM drive can format an  
>> ST225  sufficiently that RT-11 can use it? I figure it would get  
>> the high  level format wrong but wouldn't the low level format be  
>> okay? Can't  RT-11 handle the high level formatting?
>
>   Much easier, in my opinion, just to do it in XXDP.  I have the  
> Winchester standalone (zrqch0?) from XXDP modified** to boot from  
> VTserver v2.x.  If you want to try that, check out the system  
> requirements for VTserver and remind me next week and I'll send you  
> the fixed standalone utility.  I've used it on ST225, ST251, RD53  
> and RD54 disks.
>
>
> 	Doc
>
> ** according to J. Engdahl's excellent instructions