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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: GoodLook on August 08, 2004, 07:18:19 AM
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I have a Syquest Removable HD connected to my amiga.
Some of the HD's are working Fine.
With some of them I receive
"Error:Invalid Rigid Disk Block"
I gess I formatted some of them as DOS. But this it is so long ago... I do not remember how to open DOS formatted HD's on my Amiga.
I have also icons DISK:NDOS
HELP :-?
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In some case, the amiga will try to use the last cartridge rdb with the next one (diskchange not working well on some configs :-( although it has always worked well here :-? ), so if you insert a Mac or PC formated one in the syquest drive it will say that the rdb is corrupt or invalid and you get a NDOS icon :-) if it is the case for you don't forget to make a "diskchange syq:" (or whatever you've named you syquests drives) each time you change a cartridge for another or you can corrupt your datas...
Now to mount the Mac or PC cartridges you need CrossDos or CrossMac ConfigDisk utility or make a mountlist (you need to know how it has been configured though).
another good package is fat95 for PC formated disks (available on aminet) :-)
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I have here SCSImanager where a mount the new cartridge.
after I unmounted and mounted the new device then what to do ?
I also have HArd Drive Preparation
where I can change the Syqeust to:
Syquest SQ5110 ot SQ555 but as far as I remember this is only to chenge to 44mb or 88mb.
On the other hand I have CrossDos and Crossmac on my PC.
but I do not have a scsi in my PC.
This program fat95 can it do anything wrong to my disks ?
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This program fat95 can it do anything wrong to my disks ?
no, it only lets you see media that has been formated in Fat.
and i like it because it lets you use long file names (it doesn't truncate the names into 8 characters - "abcdefgh.xxx")
i have an 88 syquest and I used a mount file. it's been a long time so i can't recall the whole process.
this is what my PC formated file looks like:
/* Mountlist Entry for full Ms-Dos Disk.
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* Disk Size: 88 Meg
* Vendor and drive name: SyQuest SQ5110
*/
Surfaces = 1
BlocksPerTrack = 1
LowCyl = 0
HighCyl = 173455
DosType = 0x4d534400
BufMemType = 1
Device = csascsi.device
FileSystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
Unit = 2
Flags = 0
Mask = 0x7ffffffe
MaxTransfer = 0x00ffffff
StackSize = 2000
Priority = 5
GlobVec = -1
Buffers = 5
Activate = 1
change the Device depending on the name of your device driver and the Unit depending on where it is in the scsi line. and at the time I still used CrossDos which is why the FileSystem reflects that.