31 Dec
2012
31 Dec
'12
1:46 a.m.
It is not labelled RD31 and may have been used in a
completely different
system, probably a PC. I am happy to enter all the TEST 70 parameters (found
a link for this), but it does not prompt me, it gives an error and then just
exits the test.
I made the same experience when I performed a "DEC-format-marathon" with ten
ST-225 drives
which were neither DEC-labeled nor where DEC-formatted before.
Most of my disk drives where successfully formatted after having entered the drive
parameters
for the "TEST 70" procedure, but in case of some drives, the procedure was
aborted.
These drives where not successfully recognised as RD31 and no format was performed by
my microVAX-2000 in these cases.
What I found out is that the drives which were not recognised as RD31's were drives
with
some bad blocks detected when formatted with a PC.
Can anybody else comment on or has made that experience?
Kind regards,
Pierre