Syquest Removable Media

[GoodLook]

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  :-?

[voxel]

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) :-)

[GoodLook]

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 ?

[cecilia]

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.  
*  
* 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.