Problems with a uVAX II/gpx
Hurf Sheldon
hurf at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu
Thu Oct 19 03:07:52 AEST 1989
My experience has been that rd53 drives on rqdx3's get
'bitrot' every so often and start having errors as you
mention. Going thru the numbers of whatever the current
version supports to correct this has never been successful.
Once the disk starts, they happen more and more frequently.
The only sure cure we have found is reformatting. If you have
a vs2000 you can reformat for an rqdx3 with out Dec's
proprietary formatter or, if you have Dec support on your
system they can format your drive for you or get you their
'customer' diag set which has the formatter on it...
DEC knows this as they refuse to replace an rd53 under
service without first reformatting the drive and testing
it. (Hours of system down time when they could just plug
in a reformatted one and go home and play with it... You are
stuck with a full restore in any case) BTW -the service guys
don't have the freedom to make this decision so it is their
time that gets hosed, too.
You can probably sell your controller and drives for more
than half the cost of a new 320mb maxtor and dilog controller...
hurf
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