On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 05:10:39PM -0800, Chuck McManis wrote:

> This is a weird question, but I just built a new booter and tried it out to
> make sure it worked (it did) and that got me thinking that really I could
> build what ever I wanted and have it "boot" into the VAX. That means one
> could presumably load and execute a program that needed only the CPU, some
> memory, and a working network interface to load a program. 
> 
> Has anyone written any sorts of tests/diagnostics for various cards?

On the 4.4BSD CD there is an utility `rabads', which does bad block
revectoring for DSA disks.  I've successfully run it from /boot on a 8350.

You can find this utility (with an a.out header attached) at
<URL:http://mail-index.nice.ru/info-vax/data/rabads>.

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Sergey Svishchev -- <svs@ropnet.ru> -- http://mail-index.nice.ru/