Subject: Re: Formatting an RD53
To: Sune Stjerneby <sst@hermes.koege-gym.dk>
From: Blake Yeager <byeager@idworld.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/08/1999 16:54:19
Sune:

From the >>> prompt on the VS2000 you enter TEST 70 to format the disk
or 
TEST 71 to verify. There is an old thread on comp.sys.dec that talks
about
this. 

look here:
http://x31.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=155464186&CONTEXT=928878198.552665234&hitnum=4

-Blake

Brian D Chase wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Sune Stjerneby wrote:
> 
> > I have an RD53 sitting idling in my uVAX-II. I'd like to format it for
> > NetBSD usage (it's currently recognized as an RD51, though there's
> > printed RD53 on the Maxtor drive itself) - is there anyway I can do
> > this without getting the proper DEC service tape?
> 
> It's possible to format MFM drives to a DEC flavored low-level format by
> using the built-in disk formatting utilities included with the VAXstation
> 2000 ROM.  Figuring out the format parameters for a an RD53 might be a bit
> tricky.  Somewhere buried in the list mailings there is information about
> using the 2000's formatter to low-level format an RD32.  So that's sort of
> half of a pointer to some potentially useful information.
> 
> -brian.
> ---
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