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Re: SCSI drives for VS3100

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From: Christopher Ho
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 1990 23:30
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In article <11315@j.cc.purdue.edu>, aia@j.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Petri, Inst Group, Chemistry) writes...
>to add an external SCSI cabinet with a Fujitsu model M2263E (778 MB)
>drive.  The drive is supplied unformated by the vendor.  How does one
>go about (low level) formatting this drive for use with VMS? 

My VS3100 manual that came with the machine describes formatting SCSI drives
at the ROM prompt using 'TEST 75', and I have done this on at least 2
occasions.

Chris
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