Subject: Re: Formatting software tape image, anyone?
To: None <Erno.Palonheimo@Hut.FI>
From: Douglas Meade <inforum@umd5.umd.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/13/2000 12:03:35
Erno,

If you have one of those little lunch boxes, the Vaxstation 2000
lying about, you can also use it as a formatter.  But, if anybody
does have that image available, I'd also like to get a copy!

Doug


On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Erno Palonheimo wrote:

> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I've understood that if you want to format MSCP disks on a MicroVAX II,
> you have to use some DEC-supplied utility to do that. If I'm correct, the
> utility is on a TK50 cartridge, from which you're supposed to boot to the
> diagnostics utility which also includes formatter. Does anyone by chance
> have this formatter utility around? Does the copyright prevent someone
> from dumping the tape contents to an image file which I could 'dd' to a
> TK50 cartridge? If it doesn't, could the tape image be put somewhere so I
> could download it? Even emailing could be an option.
> 
> -- 
>  Erno Palonheimo - Helsinki University of Technology - + 358 50 560 4765
>