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Article #15572Re: XT-2190 on a VS2000
From: henderson
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 09:27
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 09:27
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In article <379@latvax8.lat.oz>, CCHD@latvax8.lat.oz (Huw Davies - La Trobe University Computer Centre) writes: > i'm trying to install a Maxtor XT-2190 into a VAXstation-2000. > At the moment, I'm having no luck formatting it. The VAXstation > happily works with an RD53 borrowed from another VAXstation, and > the Maxtor happily formats (as an RD50!) in a Rainbow. Does anyone > else have any experience with this type of drive in a VAXstation? I assume you already tried to run the TEST program to run the formatter and the verifier (TEST 70 and TEST 71 if I remember right). We have ran into that problem before. When we did, we localized the problem to the disk drive. There is a special version of the XT-2190 for DEC, which is the XT-2190D, which is not available directly from Maxtor or its distributors. What we ended up doing to format the drive is using an RQDX3 on a MicroVAX II or a PDP to do the low level format, and then the verify (TEST 71) would work fine. Javier Henderson
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!crash!simpact!hamavnet!henderson From: henderson@hamavnet.uucp Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: XT-2190 on a VS2000 Message-ID: <200@hamavnet.uucp> Date: 9 Mar 90 09:27:47 GMT References: <379@latvax8.lat.oz> Organization: Hamilton Avnet Computer; Culver City, CA Lines: 19