From: utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!idis!dan Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: RX02 formatter wanted Article-I.D.: idis.128 Posted: Wed Jul 21 04:57:52 1982 Received: Sun Jul 25 06:23:27 1982 References: duke.2343 I know of two companies that sell RX02 formatters: "Data Systems Design" and "Scientific Micro Systems". They cost about $4,000. The DSD hardware has a standalone microprogram for formatting diskettes. This provides a formatting facility without changing the floppy driver. The SMS hardware has an "extended mode" (i.e. DEC incompatible) command for formatting. The DEC RX02 cannot format *totally blank* diskettes. What it can do is flip a bit in existing single density sector headers to indicate the data segment is double density. P.S. My site recently got one of the SMS machines. We run it off our VAX unibus adaptor and are very pleased with its performance. Does anyone else out there have one of these on a UNIX system?