I picked up 5 Quantum Q540's yesterday in the hope of being able to get
some usable diskspace for one of my PDP-11's. These are the same as a RD52
from what I've been able to find out.
I stick one of the drives in my VS2000 and try to format it with the following
results:
>>> T 70
KA410-A RDRXfmt
VSfmt_QUE_unitno (0-2) ? 0
VSfmt_STS_Siz .??
VSfmt_RES_ERR #2
84 FAIL
It does this for each of the drives. The drives "sound good" for what it's
worth. Is there some special trick to getting a Q540 to act like a RD52,
does the VS2000 have a dislike for RD52's, or (my personal suspicion) is
the drive simply dead.
Zane
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Received on Mon Sep 21 1998 - 20:06:09 BST