Help formatting disk on DS3100

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From: Douglas W O'neal
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 1990 12:54

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I am trying to put a third-party disk (An Andataco 509A, 657MB) on a new
DECStation 3100 as its boot disk.  In a former life, this disk lived
peacefully on a VAXStation 3100 running VMS.  I can hack the installation 
tape to put the system on this unknown disk, but when I boot the DS3100, it
panics immediately after loading vmunix.  Unfortunately, it clears the screen
about 3 microseconds after the panic so I cannot read the exact error message.
I suspect that the disk needs reformatting and the fine manual refers you to
the Maintanence manual (which I do not have) for info on the scsi and t
commands.  Would some kind soul please forward the commands I need to format
this disk?  Better, if anybody has done the full installation and would like
to tell me how they did it, I'd love to hear from you.
Thank in advance.

-- 
Doug O'Neal, Distributed Systems Programmer, Johns Hopkins University
doug@jhuvms.bitnet, doug@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu, mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!doug 
Like many of the features of UNIX, UUCP appears theoretically 
unworkable... - DEC Professional, April 1990

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From: doug@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Douglas W O'neal)
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Subject: Help formatting disk on DS3100
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Date: 23 Jul 90 12:54:40 GMT
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