On Jun 20, 2006, at 11:20 AM, rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca wrote:
> It's main use was formatting RD5n drives, if you didn't have the DEC
> diagnostic for the MicroVAXII. (It had a formatter in firmware that was
> a reasonable substitute for the DEC diagnostic.) Since DEC would charge
> $500 to come out and format drives for you, this was more significant 
> than
> it sounds.

   ...which works fine, except that while the MicroVAX/VAXstation-2000 
formats drives in a way that, strictly, *works* with an RQDX3, its 
sector interleave is suboptimal and results in noticeably decreased 
data transfer rates.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL