[Info-vax] HELP! SCSI formatting on 3100/80.

[David Hoelzer]

On Tuesday, October 13, 1992 7:06:36 AM UTC-4, Bill Bame wrote:
> I have my brand new 3100/80 set up with 3 Seagate ST1480N disk drives
> inside.  Unfortunately these drives are unformatted.  The 3100/80 docs
> don't say how to format a SCSI drive, and I couldn't find anything on
> the DEC documentation CDs.  I have formatted SCSI drives on other VAXen
> (Vaxstation 3100/30, Vaxstation 3100/76), but the console ROMs for the
> 3100/80 aren't the same (probably more like the 4000/60 if you have one
> of those).  Here's what I have done so far...
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> TEST/UTIL SCSI
> 1 - SCSI-flp_key
> 2 - SCSI-tp_key
> 3 - SCSI-hd_dsk_eras
> 4 - SCSI-flp_fmt
> 
> SCSI_util>>> 3
> 
> SCSI_id(0-7)>>> 1
> 
> SCSI_id(0-7)>>> 0
> 
>          SCSI HD_DSK_ERAS_UTIL
> 
> DKA100 OK ? Y
> SCSI_user_terminat
> 
> 
>   84 FAIL
> >>>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> It doesn't seem to matter what I put at the "DKA100 OK ?" prompt, the result
> is always the same (I have tried "Y", "YES", "1", "0", and some other less
> likely things).  Options 1, 2, and 4 from the SCSI util menu don't even get
> that far.
> 
> I guess I could install/format the drives one by one in my VAXstation 3100/30,
> but I'd rather not.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I realize this is decades old, but just for posterity (and the fact that I couldn't remember how to do this earlier today), the correct way to answer this question is "OK", not "Y".  Any other answer will fail.