Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!hjm From: hjm@cernvax.UUCP (hjm) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: ra60 reformat? Summary: Yes! Message-ID: <742@cernvax.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 88 07:38:32 GMT References: <8806290411.AA15174@super.upenn.edu> <5374@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Reply-To: hjm@cernvax.UUCP (Hubert Matthews) Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland Lines: 22 In article <5374@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> thompson@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson) writes: >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? > Try: $ set def sys$maintenance $ r essaa !run the diagnostic supervisor DS> @config !read in the hardware configuration DS> sel DUAn: !select the appropriate disk DS> r evrlb !UDA disk formatter & wait 30-45 mins. DS> exit And then initialise your disk ... Hubert Matthews