[Info-vax] Assistance needed!! working RM05 drive and VAX needed for proje

[gah4]

On Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 7:59:16 PM UTC-7, Dave McGuire wrote:

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> I don't know why you're being so argumentative today. I hope 
> everything is ok. 
 
> LSSM is not going to be doing any flux-transition imaging on a 9766. 
> If that's what the OP wants, he's not going to have an easy time finding 
> it. We could certainly do it with a lot of time and money, but there 
> aren't a lot of 9766 packs out there anymore, so it really wouldn't be 
> worth the investment in time and effort. 
 
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Sorry, that was my suggestion.  Not knowing all the details ...
how hard it is to find the appropriate host, controller, drive, and whatever
else might be needed.

It is convenient in that it removes some of the possible problems,
but as you note, creates others. 

It seems that the 9766 is SMD, and someone might have done 
flux-transition imaging on SMD disks before. (Or maybe not.)

Past that, I don't know that high or low level formatting is the
same for all systems using such drives.