10 Jan
2007
10 Jan
'07
5:33 p.m.
I can't get my rqdx3 to format any of the st-225's I have. I'm hoping
this will solve my problem.
I've had the same issue, my experience has been that unless the drive is
already formatted for a DEC, the RQDX3 won't be able to reformat it
successfully (even for drives with the exact same geometry as a DEC
standard drive). At least I never had any luck doing so, but maybe
newer ROMs will solve the problem.
I recently picked up a VAXStation 2000 for the purpose of formatting
these drives (it has firmware routines for reformatting RQDX3 drives).
Well, that and I couldn't resist having such a tiny VAX machine... if
you get really desperate, I'd be happy to format your drives for ya' :).
Josh
Brad Parker wrote:
"Glen Slick" wrote:
I don't know the answer to your first
question. I have two M7555's in
front of my right now. One has 243E5 / 244E5 and the other has 285E5
/ 286E5. These are listed as issue 2 and issue 3 here:
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/DECROMs/ROMlist
It lists issue 4 as 339E5 and 340E5. BIN files are there.
I just finished buring 339 & 340 into 27128A's. I plan to try them as
replacements for 243/244.
I can't get my rqdx3 to format any of the st-225's I have. I'm hoping
this will solve my problem.
and on a related note...
-brad