My PDP-11/44 Won’t Let Me Format My Hard Drive

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

We’ve got this very cool Fujitsu 2312 80MB Hard Drive.
We’ve got the appropriate Emulex SC12 controller card for it.
All we gotta do is plug them together and it’ll just work, right?
Right?
Wrong bucko, get ready for days and days of pain!

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Chapters
0:00 The DEC Tower of Power
2:30 Setting up the Emulex SC12
3:50 Setting up the Fujitsu 2312
5:20 Trying and failing to format the drive
9:45 Success! (For the moment at least…)
11:28 How are we going to get RSX-11 onto the drive?
14:11 There is no easy mode… (CM)
17:55 Sysgen takes no prisoners
20:01 A problem of Grants
23:20 Disk is an alignment cartridge?!
27:47 Bunny!