[Info-vax] disk errors

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <4c556c87$0$286$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, "R.A.Omond"
<Roy.Omond at BlueBubble.UK.Com> writes: 

> I checked through this thread and notice that the disk is attached to a 
> VAX ... however, if you can attach it temporarily to one of your Alphas,
> then consider doing a low-level format of it with RZTOOLS:
> 
> $ run sys$etc:rztools_alpha
> 
> RZTools> dka0:/format
> 
> This has the advantage that it doesn't affect the host in performance
> terms in any way (it's a single SCSI command to tell the disk to format
> itself), and will re-vector any bad blocks found.

I've since replaced the disk.  I am in the process of testing hardware, 
doing inventory etc so will try this at some point on a test machine.