> > Thats good news, I have a some VAXstation2000 (and some uVAX2000) here, but I don't have any manuals for them. So could you please tell me how to format my disks with one of them...
> >  I don't have to boot them, do I?
> 
>   Nope.  At the ROM monitor prompt (">>>"), type "test 70" or "test
> 71".  One is a media test routine, the other is a formatting
> utility...I don't remember which is which.
> 
>                               -Dave McGuire

Test 70 is to low-level format the device.
Test 71 is to verify.

Marc.