Dead RF31 DSSI Disk.. final Question..

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-05-12 11:55, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> Ok, the disk passed the tests with ok.

Excellent.

> I've tried to boot something from DIA0 DIA1 and DIA2..nosurchfile so the
> disks seems to be empty.

Oh Well...

> Now I think about a reformat of the drives, but there is no such procedure.
> There is an erase program that should rewrite eachs sector with several
> patterns. I'll think that it will do the job.
> Does an format programm exists "in the field"  or is something like thisi
> proprietary to DEC?

Why would you want to reformat the drives?
That said, I would expect such a utility to exist in the firmware of the 
drive.
But normally, since these drives remap bad sectors automatically, you 
should normally just go on using them, and everything is ok.

	Johnny