MicroVax II diagnostic tape?

6 Aug 2007

...
   I have heard
tales of a magical diagnostic tape that
 exists for these machines.   
 Tales they are ;-)
 With the diagnostic tape, you can format formatted drives. If you really 
 like to format a MFM disk for a VAX, use a pdp11 with XXDP, or a 
 microVAX 2000. 
Remember there are two different types of Diag tapes, one is the Customer
Tape, the other is the FE Tape.  ISTR that the FE tape can format
unformatted drives.

Personally I'd recommend going with either ESDI, SDI, or SCSI controllers. 
I know my Webster WQESD/04 board is a very nice ESDI board that I'd be
tempted to go with.

Additionally there were third party MFM controllers, and I believe they
could format drives (not sure though).

	Zane

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MicroVax II diagnostic tape?