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Formatting IDE drive on Workbench 2.0
« on: December 06, 2004, 11:32:51 AM »
I'd like to see if I can make use of an old 4 gig drive with the AlfaData IDE interface I have, but I can't figure out how to partition and do a low level format. HDToolbox doesn't see any disks in the first place, so I'm unsure of what process I should follow...
 

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Re: Formatting IDE drive on Workbench 2.0
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2004, 12:24:00 AM »
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adolescent wrote:
AFAIK, HDToolbox included with WB2.04 (and later) support the SCSI_DEVICE_NAME tooltype.  

ex.
SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=oktagon.device

So, depending on what version of the install disks you have, you might be able to get going with what you have.


That worked fine. Thanks :) HDToolBox recognised my existing drive, so I set up a Workbench disk accordingly to try and format the other drive.
It's certainly very slow doing a format...
 

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Re: Formatting IDE drive on Workbench 2.0
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2004, 08:49:24 AM »
It started out so well, but the old drive is far too knackered to be of any use!

On another note, does anyone know if the AlfaData's interface will support two drives?