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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: corsavert on November 26, 2007, 11:40:41 PM

Title: Dataflyer 1200 question....
Post by: corsavert on November 26, 2007, 11:40:41 PM

Installing Dataflyer 1200, driver installed and now formatting 550mg hd. Question - it's at "Writing RDB-Blocks".... how long should this take? It's been at it an hour already....

Title: Re: Dataflyer 12000 question....
Post by: rkauer on November 26, 2007, 11:48:02 PM

 Look like you have a termination problem to me.

 Check (or re-check) the terminators.

Title: Re: Dataflyer 12000 question....
Post by: corsavert on November 27, 2007, 03:31:11 AM

It's working!!! I had two problems....

Needed to BOOT from the Dataflyer install disk to run the partition & format... not just launch the utility from my own WB.

Once formatted, 3.1 couldn't access the 4gb (actually something like 4068mb) drive - too big I guess.

A 540mb drive then worked fine...

Title: Re: Dataflyer 12000 question....
Post by: rkauer on November 28, 2007, 05:32:15 AM

 Real SCSI drives don't have the 4Gb barrier issue! It only happens in IDE devices.

 But the FFS you have could be the problem. Use only to a bit less than 2Gb each partition.