Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!thompson 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 Lines: 11 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.