Subject: Re: Floppy init
To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
From: None <>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/21/1999 12:37:04
> Hmmm, the RX50 interfaces for VAXen are not capable of formatting. The
> only box sold by DEC who could hardware format RX50 was the Rainbow.
> So, even if someone wrote something equivalent to John Wilson's PUTR, it
> wouldn't help.
> The hardware just isn't in there.

If your using a RQDX2 or RQDX3 there is a PDP-11 formatter for RX50
so the controller an do it.  Also the VAX diags (MDM) had an RX50
formatter. So if someone can write it the controller can do it.