Another winchester drive

by david 13. April 2011 00:09

So I bought a second Seagate ST-225 "winchester" disk off ebay.  I got it for the starting bid, nobody else made a bid!  Result.  I have connected it to my PDP-11 and used my "XXDP booting from ODT" trick to format it.  Here are the results:

Second disk formatted

This is good news, the drive seems to be in good shape.  Since then I have copied some RT-11 files to it and made it bootable.  So I have a spare.

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David

I'm a C# developer having worked with .Net since it was in beta.  Before that I mainly worked in C and C++.  I have been developing commercial software for more than 20 years.  I also mess around with microprocesors, but that's just for fun.  I live near Cambridge, England and at the moment I'm contracted to one of the departments at Cambridge University.

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