At 08:20 PM 12/16/96 -0100, you wrote:
>> > Thats good news, I have a some VAXstation2000 (and some uVAX2000) here,
but I don't have any manuals for them. So could you please tell me how to
format my disks with one of them...
>> >  I don't have to boot them, do I?
>> 
>>   Nope.  At the ROM monitor prompt (">>>"), type "test 70" or "test
>> 71".  One is a media test routine, the other is a formatting
>> utility...I don't remember which is which.
>> 
>>                               -Dave McGuire
>
>Test 70 is to low-level format the device.
>Test 71 is to verify.

I may be wrong, but I *think* those numbers are good for the
VAXStation/MicroVAX 3100 series.

The 2000 series had TEST 49 to format and TEST 50 to do a read-test.

-javier