[Info-vax] 8" Floppies

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/31/18 3:10 PM, Hans Vlems wrote:
> The 11/785 had access to an RX02 drive that was attachted to it pdp 11 console computer. The 11/780 and 11/782 probably were similar to that.
> The sysgen command connect console created csa0 and csa1 (IIRC) for use by VMS.
> Other VAX models with standard default floppies used 5.25” and 3.5” types.
> 

I know they did.  But the controller used (chip level) in anything the
age of a VAX would support 8" disks.  It was only modern controllers
foisted on us by the PC world that stopped supporting IBM 3740 format.

The question really is does VMS after 7.0 have support for accessing
RX01/RX02 floppies.

bill