shirsch
Veteran Member
I have a Corvus "flat-cable" drive and quad-height QBus interface and am trying to bring it up under RT-11 on a 16-bit Heath H-11. Currently using a QBone to provide console, memory and MSCP storage (system is booted from that). I can find almost no information on use of a Corvus with LSI-11 systems beyond the fact that it appears as an RL01 at the system level. I know the controller and drive are talking and I see some activity when trying to 'INITIALIZE/BADBLOCKS DL0:'. But, it throws an immediate error complaining about bad directory blocks. There are definitely not any bad blocks, since the drive uses a Gesswein MFM emulator and passes all diagnostics when connected to an Apple 2 system.
I think there was a prep utility that setup basic disk layout, but since no documentation has turned up that's just a guess. Would appreciate input or suggestions on how to get this going. Someone, somwhere must have seen or worked with the Corvus in this environment and I thought this was a good place to start asking.
I think there was a prep utility that setup basic disk layout, but since no documentation has turned up that's just a guess. Would appreciate input or suggestions on how to get this going. Someone, somwhere must have seen or worked with the Corvus in this environment and I thought this was a good place to start asking.