> It's a bit more complicated than that. There's a geometry table at the 
> start of the drive (that's why you don't have to tell your VAX what "drive 
> type" you have) and a bad block table at the end.
> 
> As far as interleave goes, it's not _really_ critical; a drive will work at 
> any interleave, it'll just be slower at some interleaves than at others. 
> I.e., if interleave were the only problem, you could format a drive and 
> have it useable even without knowing the proper interleave for the VAX.

Is there any source of info as to what the formatted drive has to look 
like? I would be willing to write a program that does this, as long as I 
can find out what the required format is. 

I have a sick RD53 and would like to get it going again. DEC won't let me 
use their diagnostic tape, and no one I can find has a Microvax 2000.

Kevin


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Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD
mcquiggi@sfu.ca