Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!hao!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!IFI.UIO.NO!geirp From: geirp@IFI.UIO.NO (Geir Pedersen) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: reusing old dec-10 rp06 drives on vax Message-ID: <5497.8707231440@ifi.uio.no> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 12:23:30 EDT Article-I.D.: ifi.5497.8707231440 Posted: Thu Jul 23 12:23:30 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 07:35:48 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 16 Hello, I'm trying to bring up an old DEC-10 RP06 on a 780. Neither the Unix format program or digitals equivalent are able to format the drive for me. format complains about read errors for every sector it tries. I suppose this may have something to do with the difference between 32 and 36. Do i have to do a low level (factory) reformating of the disk? If so how do i do such a thing? (In case I'm on the wrong track some more hard facts: The heads are moving, there is a difference in the errormessages when i writeprotect the drive.) Geir Pedersen