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From: mlw@ucla-an.UUCP (Michael Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Need formatting program for RD53
Keywords: DEC MVII RD53 format
Message-ID: <68@ucla-an.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 90 14:41:04 GMT
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Organization: Dept. Anesthesia, Sch. of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles
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We're running Mt. Xinu BSD4.3 on a DEC MVII with a RD53 (Micropolis) disk.
The 'ra0b' partition has developed some bad sectors and since this is our
swap partition, the system crashes everytime we swap into a bad area.
We don't have a formatting program and don't want to spend the $2500 for
the DEC diagnostics (or Field Service).  Does anyone know of another formatter,
or for that matter a workaround for this problem?  Please mail replies to me.
I will answer 'me too!' queries unless the numbers warrant a posted summary.

Mike Williams			ARPA: mlw@anes.ucla.edu
Dept. of Anesthesiology		UUCP: decvax!hermix!ucla-an!mlw 
School of Medicine, UCLA	      {randvax,ucla-se,cepu}!ucla-an!mlw
Los Angeles, CA 90024		BELL: (213) 825-7073