29 Jan
2003
29 Jan
'03
2:59 p.m.
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Witchy wrote:
In my old days as a DEC VAR I'd just call support
on this one, but
this is my own kit so I don't have that choice. I recently found an
old RZ28 (Seagate drive I think, have to check) I'd forgotten I had so
I stuck it in my 3100-90 for testing. Stuff like $analyze/disk/repair
work fine (vms 7.3 courtesy of my last workplace :) but part way
through $analyze/media/exercise=full the drive goes offline so it
obviously has a Bad Area on it. Anyone know if a low level reformat is
possible??
On the VAXstation 3100s and early MicroVAX 3100s, I believe "TEST 75" at
the console prompt ">>>" drops you into a low level formatter.
There's
also a floppy formatter somewhere nearby--I think it was TEST 74 or
TEST 76. I'm not sure if these work in later model MicroVAX 3100s like
yours, so your mileage may vary. Also, it takes a /long/ time to run on
large disks; one of my 4GB SCSI drives took a number of hours.
-brian.