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

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020, 9:45 AM Ronald Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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
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RX50 also had weird interleaving... but it was quite the odd duck.

Warner

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