I Use a spare MicroVAX-2000, the system roms ahve good diags and formatter for floppies and HD.
Allison On 11/20/19 1:14 AM, Jacob Ritorto via cctalk wrote: > Nice going! > > Related story: > I had probs formatting a maxtor 11xx (not an actual xt-2190 but really close) > as an rd54 due to geometry differences and binary patched that formatter to > deal with it using the xxdp equivalent of od. Have the patched xxdp > formatter binary on an rl02 pack here if anyone needs it. > > Works a treat, close enough that dec software thinks it’s an rd54. > > Jake > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Nov 19, 2019, at 20:13, Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> >> wrote: >> >> Figured it out at last. On a BA23, the RD54 needs to be jumpered at the >> disk as UNIT 3, and I had it as unit 4. Thus the jumper needed to be between >> 3 and C, I had it one stake over between 4 and C. >> >> Fixed that, did the format where you do not select Autoformat, and downline >> load UIT and you get the disk going tick, tick, tick as the sectors are >> formatted. Here is Terry Kennedy's instructions updated to a BA23 instead of >> a BA123: >> >> DR> STA >> >> CHANGE HW (L) ? Y >> >> # UNITS (D) ? 1 >> >> UNIT 0 >> Enter controller IP address (O) 172150 ? >> What unit do you want to format [0-255] (D) 0 ? 0 >> Would you like to revector a single LBN only [Y/N] (L) N ? >> Do you want to use the "AUTOFORMAT" Mode [Y/N] (L) Y ? N >> >> >> Would you like to use the RCT - Revector known bad blocks [Y/N] (L) N ? >> >> **** WARNING **** >> >> [text about don't proceed if you're just kidding deleted] >> >> Do you wish to continue [Y/N] (L) Y ? >> >> >> MSCP Controller Model: 19 >> Microcode Version: 4 >> >> Do you want to use manufacturing bad block information [Y/N] (A) N ? >> >> Downline load UIT [Y/N] (A) Y ? >> >> >> UIT Drive Name >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> 0 RD51 >> 1 RD52 part # 30-21721-02 (1 light on front panel) >> 2 RD52 part # 30-23227-02 (2 lights on front panel) >> 3 RD53 >> 4 RD31 >> 5 RD54 >> 6 RD32 >> >> Enter Unit Identifier Table (UIT) [0-7] (D) ? 5 >> >> Continue if bad block information is inaccessible [Y/N] (A) N ? Y >> >> Please type in the serial number [8-10 digits] (A) ? 013284212 (use >> whatever you want) >> >> >> Formatting of Drive 1 Begin. >> >> [a long sequences of messages is displayed here, 1 per minute, showing the >> progress of formatting and what step is in progress on which block number.] >> >> Format Completed. >> >> And Bob's your uncle!
