New subject: Data General MV/1000

4 Jun 1999

I have a two-board Q-bus Controller for 8" hard disks.  Having no use for
same, and not wishing to "go there" I'm hoping someone in this group is
curious enough to send me $6.20 for postage via USPS Priority mail, as I
don't think they'll make the 2-lb limit, being fully loaded enough to have
no identifying silkscreen markings to indicate who made them.

Any takers?

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com &lt;CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: Formatting disk on rt11

...

>Alternatively, if you have a VS2000, it has a RQDX3-compabitle
> formatter built into it. 
 I just formatted the disk in a MVII with the
diagnostic tape. 
Or - maybe you didn't :-(.  The MVII diagnostics are worse than useless.

 >What error message do you get when you try DIR
DU0: ?  If it's a
>"?DIR-F-Error reading directory", 
 I still get this one ... 
Then you didn't format the RD54 successfully.  The best you can hope
for with the MVII diagnostics is to turn an already formatted RD54
into a formatted RD54.  The worst that can happen is that you
lose an already existing format.

Let me know what media it'd be useful to you on, and I'll get you a
bootable XXDP disk/pack/cart/tape with ZRQC?? on it.

 .INIT Du0:
DU0: Initialize are you sure ?Y
?DUP-F-Size function failed 
Yep - you need to really reformat the disk, as opposed to what the MVII
diagnosics do.  And congratulations on actually posting the command
you used and the error message that resulted!!  If only everyone else
on the list could do the same, it'd be a much nicer world!!

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