18 Sep
2009
18 Sep
'09
8:59 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Steve Davidson wrote:
Of the two (2), only the VS2000 has the formatter built-in. The formatter
on the VS2000 will format drives compatible with the RQDX3, maybe even the
RQDX2 and/or RQDX1. I seem to remember that "test 70" does the trick.
-Steve
Not only that, but I've been able to successfully format a Maxtor XT 2190 as
an RD54 using my VS2000, in spite of the fact the VS2000 is broken. My
VS2000 has bad RAM, and maybe other issues, so I know it doesn't need to be
fully working to do the format.
The Customer diagnostics tape for a standard MVII can't do the format, but a
FE Diag tape can. Has anyone ever imaged a FE tape?
Zane
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Possibly not fully working, but mine has a problem with the console port. It doesn't
allow me to type anything it only produces output. The serial port controller seems to be
bad.
If someone has a spare motherboard, I'm very interested. :-)
Kari