On 09/25/2012 03:54 AM, Jarratt RMA wrote:
    The alternative is to find someone with a MicroVAX
2000 (or
 get one of your own), that can also do the formatting for you.
 
 Doesn't that format RD53s and RD54s slightly sub-optimally? 
   
  I don't know, does it? I don't know much about
the low level formatting,
 but a project I have in mind for the future will mean I need to learn a
 *lot* more about it. 
  Yes it does.  It formats at a different interleave level than the
RQDX3 using the bootable uVAX-II diags.  This results in lower data
transfer rates on the RQDX3.
  It will *work*, though.
               -Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA