--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh_at_aracnet.com> wrote:
> >I have a PDP-11/83 with an RQDX3 disk controller and a pair of RD53
> >drives from a MicroVAX II... 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 its ROMs.
While the original question was in regards to an 11/83, I wanted to jump
in on the VS/MV2000 recommendation and mention that I have found a couple
of disks that would _not_ format under the ROM formatter there, but would
do so on a uVAX-II w/FS Diag Tape formatter. The disks in question did
have bad blocks that needed to be mapped and there was some reason I never
did understand why the MV2000 could not do it. It appeared to work, but an
Ultrix 2.0 install failed at the same point every time, due to the bad block
that wasn't properly mapped out.
-ethan
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