Thanks for the info, Dave.

Does anybody have a suitable VS2000 for sale? I heard of some for $50 last
summer...

Kevin

At 11:48 AM 96/12/14 -0500, you wrote:
>On December 13, you wrote:
>> I have a sick RD53 and would also be interested in getting it
>> reformatted. If you get any positive replies please let me know. I
>> too have phoned DEC, and they say that short of placing a service
>> call for my Microvax II they can do nothing for me.
>
>  I think your best bet would be to pick up a MicroVAX2000 or a
>VAXstation2000 and use its ROM-based formatting utilities.  I've been
>seeing them in the US$50 range for some time now; not too expensive to
>be used as a formatting engine until NetBSD fully supports them...
>
>  I have been told, however, that while the format is
>RQDX3-compatible, the interleave is different.  I'm not sure if that'd
>be a performance penalty in this case or not.  Anyone care to comment?
>
>
>                           -Dave McGuire
>
>

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