>>So what does it want for input?  Don't know if this is a stupid question,
>>but am asking since I've never actually used XXDP+ and I didn't get any
>>documentation at all with the Packs, despite the fact that the rest had
>>related Docs.
>type 'STA'.  It will prompt you for some information which will be
>pretty intuitive... stuff like the hardware address to use, the unit
>to format, whether you want bad blocks revectored, etc...

If he couldn't figure out the answers to the VS2000 formatter, he's
not going to have any easier time with ZRQC!  Remember, he's formatting
disks that have never been formatted on a VS2000 or RQDX3 before, so
he needs all the numbers necessary to MSCP-qualify the disk.

Here's the RD52 numbers, straight from the RQDX3 DEC-internal docs:

					Quantum		Atasi
					-------		-----
Sector Interleave			1:1		1:1
Bytes/Sector				512		512
Sectors/LBN				1		1
LBNs/Track				17		17
Tracks/Group				8		7
Groups/Cylinder				1		1
Cylinders/Unit				512		645
Total LBN's/Unit			69632		76755
RBNs/Unit				168		168
RCT Size (Blocks)			4		4
RCT Copies				8		8
DBNs/Unit				8		8
XBNs/Unit				54		54
User LBNs/Unit				60480		60480
User Capacity (Bytes)			30965760	30965760
Step Pulsewidth (usec)			11.2		11.2
Step Rate (usec)			17.6		17.6
Write Precomp (nsec)			10		10
Precomp Cylinders			256-611		320-644

And, for completeness, the RD51 and RD53 numbers (though I suspect
the DEC tables have typos for at least some of the RD51 quantities):

					RD51		RD53
					----		----
Sector Interleave			1:1		1:1
Bytes/Sector				512		512
Sectors/LBN				1		1
LBNs/Track				18		17
Tracks/Group				1		8
Groups/Cylinder				4		1
Cylinders/Unit				306		1024
Total LBN's/Unit			22032		139264
RBNs/Unit				144		280
RCT Size (Blocks)			36		5
RCT Copies				4		8
DBNs/Unit				87		82
XBNs/Unit				57		54
User LBNs/Unit				21600		138672
User Capacity (Bytes)			11059200	71000064
Step Pulsewidth (usec)			11.2		11.2
Step Rate (usec)			17.6		17.6
Write Precomp (nsec)			10		(none)
Precomp Cylinders			110-305		(none)

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