Re: D9060 Hard drive

Thanks, I look into it. I have a scsi but with different a cable. I'll 
have to find an adapter. I'll keep you posted.

On 3/29/2013 11:37 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Teddy <ejohnson.ed@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't understand. It's not a SCSI drive, its a Western Digital MFM drive.
> The drive is, but there is a SASI<->MFM bridge card in there.
>
> My own experiences with formatting the drives is that it should take several
> hours to format a drive with the older ROMs, then there's a newer rev that
> takes almost twice as long.  We are talking 2-4 hours, not 12, so that's not
> your problem.
>
> What might be happening, and this is just a guess, is that there is a jumper
> that tells the DOS board (the one with the IEEE connector) if the drive has
> 4 heads (5 MB) or 6 heads (7.5MB).  If you are using an ST-225, that has
> 4 heads and the jumper has to match.  I would have expected an error code,
> but if your board is strapped for 6 heads, the format will fail right away.
>
> http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/firmware/drives/old/9090/index.html
>
> -ethan
>
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