[comp.sys.dec.micro] RD51/RD31 compatiblity/formatting

art@MITRE.ARPA (Art McClinton) (07/07/88)

they certainly will work.
I will take one at those prices.
If you do not have the special DEC formatter, the WUTIL pd formatter
will certainly work.
 
     
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  =-=- This note is in response to yours which follows -=-=

I ordered a couple of RD51 disks (10 meg) at the recent DECUS.
DEC phoned yesterday and said they're out of RD51's but will
substitute RD31's (20 meg).  This sounds great, but I'm
wondering if my Rainbow users will be able to format those
RD31's.  They're running MS-DOS 2.11.

Can anyone help me here?  Please reply by e-mail to the address
below ASAP.  I've got DEC on hold :-).