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From: thompson@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: ra60 reformat?
Message-ID: <5374@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 88 15:26:23 GMT
References: <8806290411.AA15174@super.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: thompson@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <8806290411.AA15174@super.upenn.edu> YATES@A.CHEM.UPENN.EDU ("Yates, John H.") writes:
  A colleague who has an RA60 drive just told me
  that they have had hardware failures on 3 occasions that
  renders the removable pack useless, as it destroys the
  formatting somehow. DEC has told them there is nothing that
  can be done to reformat it. Can this be true? Isn't there a
  field service diagnostic that can do the job?

Sure this can be done. We have a VAX 8250, and a set of disk formatting
programs came in the console floppy kit. I have used them to reformat
an RA60 pack. It has to be done standalone of course.