Formatting Fujitsu Eagles under Ultrix 3.0

[George Robbins]

In article <MNICHOLS.89Oct4170314 at dante.nmsu.edu> mnichols at dante.nmsu.edu (Mark Nichols) writes:
> 
> We are converting a 4.3bsd Vax 11/750 system to Ultrix 3.0. The 750 has
> a System Industries 9900 controller and two Fujitsu 2351 Eagle drives. 
> The Eagles are called 9751's by System Industries. The disk utilities
> supplied by SI for 4.3 bsd do not work under Ultrix. Does anyone have
> a set of the SI utilites that will operate under Ultrix that they could
> send me ? Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

The 4.3 BSD stand-alone formatting utilities should be able to format the
controller drive combination you mention.  For that matter, there is
no need to "reformat" the drives at all - the low level format is the
same, and even the filesystems need only be fsck'ed (as long as it's
not 4.3 tahoe). 

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