Message: 26 Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 12:31:25 -0400 From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> Subject: Re: DEC ST506 Interface Adapter Part No 54-17003-01 To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <f4eb766f0905160931veb8ff8ax6957d5c2abd0d432 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Julian Skidmore <julianskidmore at yahoo.com> wrote: The geometries aren't in the RQDXn ROMs - the formatter application writes them to the disk during the formatter process. There are three VAX formatters I know of - the ROMs on a VS/uV2000, the Customer Runnable Diagnostics (CRD) and the Field Service diagnostics. I know the CRD formatter only allows you to select known drives from a menu table and the Field Service formatter allows you to enter arbitrary values (i.e., has a menu plus a fill-in page). The ROM-based formatter on the VS/uV2000 was the one I appear to have mis-remembered the capabilities of. No hacking of the RQDX3 is required, just selection of the right formatter application.