On Mon, 25 May 1998, Gunnar Helliesen wrote:

> I got this through someone on this list, I think, but now I can't
> remember who or where or ... aarghh! my mind is going! ....

[snip]

> *	KA-410-A is a multi-user, uVAX2000 system. -B is the single user
> *	VAXstation 2000. V1.2 is the ROM rev level. NB for VAXstation

Oh, now I'm confused.  I'd mistakenly thought the KA410-A was for the
VAXstation 2000, and KA410-B was for MicroVAX 2000.  It's the other way
around -- durrr.  For some reason one of the two VAXstation 2000s I've got
believes it's a MicroVAX 2000 at power-up, even though it's jumpered to be
a VAXstation 2000.  NetBSD/vax knows better and sees it as a VS2000.
Strange but unimportant I suppose.

[snip]

>                   KA410-A RDRXfmt

[snip]

> Sample follows:-
> ========================================================================
> How to Format a Non-Digital Hard Disk

This was actually quite useful.  Does anyone have other sets of numbers
for other drive models which can be fed to the VS2000 disk formater?  A
relatively complete set would be handy.  Actually, a general explanation
of the all the parameters would be nice, but I doubt I'll get it.  For
some of the the numbers you could probably just pick relatively sane
values and you'd be okay.  At the very least, it'd be nice to have the
values for all the standard MFM drives used by DEC.  I've got a Miniscribe
3053 which I'm planning on sacrificing in the name of scientific
investigation.

On a related note.  I found a really great web site with what appears to
be a nearly complete collection of new and old drive definitions.  This
saves a lot of headaches in trying to track down info on drives from
defunct drive manufacturers.  

http://www.mm.mtu.edu/drives/

-brian.
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