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
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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