Yeah I found it last night.
It wasn't on the boot disk, and wasn't in /bin, so I didn't think it was there! So glad to see it(I use vi on a daily basis at work).
I found a forum post from 1993 that describes a problem I'm having, but there were no replies. I've got the second H310 drive spinning up and passing selftests - it is labeled like the original "Manufactured for IBM" with an H310 sticker on the front. The following is what happens:
I can low level format the drive, I can add and remove partitions (minidisks) as I feel fit, but I can't:
- pass the PC RT Diagnostics media test
- high level format it with Diagnostics
- use mkfs to create the filesystem
In diagnostics it's "FORMAT ERROR 9", in VRM sometimes I get an IO error -64 but usually the machine hardware locks and flashes c0 05 on the LCD display.
Any partitions, never appear in AIX on this drive. It self-tests fine, and you can hear the head moving about during mkfs before failing.
I have tried small partitions at the start, middle, and end of the drive. Doesn't make a difference. Takes about ten minutes before the crash (using mkfs or the maintenance disk menu).
Any ideas?
And can I reference the drive with no partition? Was wondering if I did a 'dd' from one drive to the other at a sector level, I could end up with a valid backup drive (I know I can't have two copies installed at once, or I'll confuse it, but a backup is what I really need)