16 May
2009
16 May
'09
4:31 p.m.
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Julian Skidmore
<julianskidmore at yahoo.com> wrote:
The geometries aren't in the RQDXn ROMs - the formatter application
writes them to the disk during the formatter process.
There are three VAX formatters I know of - the ROMs on a VS/uV2000,
the Customer Runnable Diagnostics (CRD) and the Field Service
diagnostics.
I know the CRD formatter only allows you to select known drives from a
menu table and the Field Service formatter allows you to enter
arbitrary values (i.e., has a menu plus a fill-in page). The
ROM-based formatter on the VS/uV2000 was the one I appear to have
mis-remembered the capabilities of.
No hacking of the RQDX3 is required, just selection of the right
formatter application.
-ethan
I thought it
could only format "known" disk types, not arbitrary disks
(a firmware limitation in the formatter application, not a hardware
limitation).
Surely, it's possible to hack an RQDX3 controller's ROM to support arbitrary
geometries?