rqdx3 firmware

Brad Parker wrote: It may help, as I'm not absolutely sure that Issue 2 can handle ST-225, but Issue 3 or 4 certainly can. However, the common problem is that you need to give the right answers to the formatter's questions about using the manufacturer's bad block table and various other things, otherwise the formatter just tries to use the UIT table (aka FCT, Format Control Table) that's in the first three XBNs of a DEC-formatted disk, which it needs but won't find on a non-original-DEC drive. You can't use "autoformat" mode, although the data for the table for RD31/32/33 is in ZRQCH0. I used to do this a lot, fifteen years ago, but offhand I don't remember the incantations; I even worked out what almost all of the numbers had to be in order to use drives that DEC didn't support. I've no doubt the relevant recipe for an ST-225 -- which is supported, as an RD31 -- is on the web somewhere. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York