So what does it
want for input? Don't know if this is a stupid question,
but am asking since I've never actually used XXDP+ and I didn't get any
documentation at all with the Packs, despite the fact that the rest had
related Docs.
type 'STA'. It will prompt you for some information which
will be
pretty intuitive... stuff like the hardware address to use, the unit
to format, whether you want bad blocks revectored, etc...
If he couldn't figure out the answers to the VS2000 formatter, he's
not going to have any easier time with ZRQC! Remember, he's formatting
disks that have never been formatted on a VS2000 or RQDX3 before, so
he needs all the numbers necessary to MSCP-qualify the disk.
Here's the RD52 numbers, straight from the RQDX3 DEC-internal docs:
Quantum Atasi
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Sector Interleave 1:1 1:1
Bytes/Sector 512 512
Sectors/LBN 1 1
LBNs/Track 17 17
Tracks/Group 8 7
Groups/Cylinder 1 1
Cylinders/Unit 512 645
Total LBN's/Unit 69632 76755
RBNs/Unit 168 168
RCT Size (Blocks) 4 4
RCT Copies 8 8
DBNs/Unit 8 8
XBNs/Unit 54 54
User LBNs/Unit 60480 60480
User Capacity (Bytes) 30965760 30965760
Step Pulsewidth (usec) 11.2 11.2
Step Rate (usec) 17.6 17.6
Write Precomp (nsec) 10 10
Precomp Cylinders 256-611 320-644
And, for completeness, the RD51 and RD53 numbers (though I suspect
the DEC tables have typos for at least some of the RD51 quantities):
RD51 RD53
---- ----
Sector Interleave 1:1 1:1
Bytes/Sector 512 512
Sectors/LBN 1 1
LBNs/Track 18 17
Tracks/Group 1 8
Groups/Cylinder 4 1
Cylinders/Unit 306 1024
Total LBN's/Unit 22032 139264
RBNs/Unit 144 280
RCT Size (Blocks) 36 5
RCT Copies 4 8
DBNs/Unit 87 82
XBNs/Unit 57 54
User LBNs/Unit 21600 138672
User Capacity (Bytes) 11059200 71000064
Step Pulsewidth (usec) 11.2 11.2
Step Rate (usec) 17.6 17.6
Write Precomp (nsec) 10 (none)
Precomp Cylinders 110-305 (none)
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