[TUHS] DEC RL01/RL02 RX01/RX02 Disk Image Creator

Ronald Natalie ron at ronnatalie.com
Wed Jun 3 01:44:00 AEST 2020



> On Jun 2, 2020, at 9:52 AM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
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> The good news is that all the DEC systems used 512 byte fixed blocks much later than LSX so driver support is doubtful. 
> 

Except on the RX’s.   The RX01 was 128 byte sectors and the later ones 256 and a odd interleaving strategy.    However, the boot block and the rest of the file systems (both UNIX and RT at least)
just aggregated the smaller (logical) sectors together to make a 512 byte one.
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