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SCSI drives
« on: July 23, 2003, 08:04:28 PM »
A little harddrive problem......
I had a drive die on me recently (a Quantum 1.4 gig)
I bought a replacement from a company that warantied
 their used drives. The new (used) drive
was also a Quantum, but it also died shortly after.
So I picked up a Conner drive on EBay and all is
working fine.
Back to the origonal problem. The company replaced
dead Quantum .. with my aprovel (mistakenly) with
an IBM 4.5 gig scsi drive.(model 2XP DCHS-34550)
I am sure this drive is OK, but I can't get my A3k to
reconize it. I have also 2 other drives that are too
small for me to use but work fine when hooked up.
So the problem is how to configure this IBM drive.
It is a SCSI and so should work.
Anyone know anything about these IBM drives???
     (Model 2XP DCHS-34550  4.55 gig)

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Re: SCSI drives
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2003, 10:06:30 PM »
Hay.....thanks

This looks like a good place to start.
Atleast it explains the jumpers (I think).
Going to read it now.

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Re: SCSI drives
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2003, 03:12:50 AM »
Hmmm...... I knew I made a mistake in letting
them pawn that IBM drive off on me :-(

I guess I'll have to just eat it.

BTW... does anyone know what they mean
by a 'Raid' drive?? This Conner I have is a 'Raid'.
I have no idea what that means.

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Re: SCSI drives
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2003, 04:48:46 AM »
Uhhh......actually the problem seems to be that
this drive was formated with a 'NON-Amiga' format.
I don't know if its messy dos or apple but my A3k
tries to read the format and hangs there.
I found a proggy on Aminet that might low-level
format it if I can figure out the command.
I'll let you know what happens......

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Re: SCSI drives
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2003, 03:37:54 PM »
Yes...... I'm running OS 3.1.
HarddriveTools can see the drive, but hangs-up
when tring to get the info from the drive.
I downloaded a couple progies from Aminet,
one called 'SCSIProbe' and the other called
'SCSIFormat'. SCSIProbe scans the disk and lists
the info on it. SCSIFormat is supposed to format it.
I would say the drive is okay, I just have to low-level
format it so my A3k can use it. The problem now is
(I think) that the author of SCSIFormat didn't put any
examples of the command to use this progie.
(It was probably ment for people smarter than me ;-)
Anyway .. thats where I'm at now.
Anyone ever used 'ScsiFormat' from Aminet ???

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