Fairlight-CMI

> Hi Laurent
>
> Thanks for replying to me. I appreciate it :-)
>
> On bootup my Fairlight says this:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> OS 9, Level 2, V5.14FK, 26. october 1988
>
> IOpack V3.22
>
> Generel release 6.03.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Inside the cardholder I can find a card in slot CMI-33 but no print
> in the metal bar with CMI-41 and of cause no card.
>
> On the back of the machine I have a centronics 50-pins SCSI
> connector which connects to an external SCSI case with a Fujitsu
> M2261SA harddrive. This Fujitsu drive is also a SCSI device.
>
> Laurent, shouldn't I be able to replace the Fujitsu drive with
> another 50 pin SCSI harddrive like the Micropolis 1624 SCSI drive
> (668 Mb) or a Quantum fireball SE SCSI drive (1 Gb) and format it
> with the scsiformat command or am I missing something here?

Hello Brian;

the Fairlight OS 6.03 did only support a very small number of drives ( I
think two or three at most); if memory serves me well it was a 180 MB drive
and the largest one a 380 MB drive (or something like that). Good luck
finding those; I think the manufacturer went broke long ago.

All this changed with the later OS (I don't know if this happened with
revision 7 or 8). Of course, this requires new hardware as well...

-- 
Malte Rogacki gacki@gacki.sax.de
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