The good news: I got another VAXstation 2000 last week. This one has the
adapter plate beneath the CPU box, 4 plane graphics, an RD53 and 6 MB
memory.

After I netboot the machine and disklabel and newfs the disk I get some
strange messages:


# disklabel -r -w rd0 RD53
-697434112-->512
1425365139-->8
-1345284433-->17
-1165044254-->1024
-905891441-->136
# 
# disklabel -r rd0
18-->17
963-->1024
144-->136
# /dev/rrd0c:
type: MSCP
disk: rd53
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 18
tracks/cylinder: 8
sectors/cylinder: 144
cylinders: 963
total sectors: 138672
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:    15884        0    unused     1024  8192         # (Cyl.    0 -
110*)
  b:    33440    15884      swap                        # (Cyl.  110*-
342*)
  c:   138672        0    unused      512  4096         # (Cyl.    0 -
962)
  e:    33440        0    unused      512  4096         # (Cyl.    0 -
232*)
  f:   105232    33440    unused      512  4096         # (Cyl.  232*-
962*)
  g:    89348    49324    unused      512  4096         # (Cyl.  342*-
962*)
  h:   122788    15884    unused      512  4096         # (Cyl.  110*-
962*)
# 
# 
# disklabel -r -w /dev/rrd0a rd53
18-->17
963-->1024
144-->136
# 
# newfs /dev/rrd0a
18-->17
963-->1024
144-->136
18-->17
963-->1024
144-->136
Warning: 28 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/rrd0a:     15884 sectors in 117 cylinders of 8 tracks, 17 sectors
        7.8MB in 8 cyl groups (16 c/g, 1.06MB/g, 256 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 32, 2240, 4448, 6656, 8864, 11072, 13280, 15488,
# 


What do these "n-->m" messages mean? Is the disk bad? Should I try
low-level formatting it from the console monitor?


The bad news: The RD54 in my original VS2K refuses to spin up after I
had the machine off for a few hours yesterday. The machine was pretty
warm after living on a cramped shelf for weeks. Maybe the electronics
were fried in the heat-soak after I powered off? Arrgh, I had lots of
stuff on that disk and it was working perfectly...

Gunnar

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Gunnar Helliesen   | Bergen IT Consult AS  | NetBSD/VAX on a uVAX II
Systems Consultant | Bergen, Norway        | '86 Jaguar Sovereign 4.2
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