the diag that did this with an rqdx3 was on the field circus diagnostics
tape, not the commonly found customer diags tape, though. a vs2k is the 
easiest way.. 

isidlur

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Stanley Reynolds wrote:

> I would use a vax2000 or vaxstation 2000 to format the
> drive, think it was "test 70" on the console. This
> would format the drive and take care of the bad
> blocks. I think there was a dec diag to do this with
> the RQDX3 but I always used the 2000 firmware.
> 
> Stanley
> 
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