>I have a PDP-11/83 with an RQDX3 disk controller and a pair of RD53
>drives from a MicroVAX II. Since all I can get from both drives are I/O
>errors, I am left to assume that they were once hooked to an RQDX2
>controller and now need to be re-low-level formatted to work with the
>RQDX3. Does anyone know what is required to do this on an 11/83? Was
>there an XXDP diagnostic program that did this?
There is an XXDP program to do this, as well as the MV II Diag Tape (not
the customer diag tape though). However, the easiest way to do it is with
a VAXstation/MicroVAX 2000 which has the necessary routines in it's ROMs.
Zane
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Received on Thu Jul 05 2001 - 12:22:40 BST