Fairlight-CMI

Hi Brian,

Are you sure you have a rev6.03 series 3 ? The HD you have are true 
SCSI HD
and it was my understanding that rev6.03 only accept ST-506 or ESDI 
disks
with an Adaptec converter to interface them with the CMI-777 
pseudo-SCSI format.

Maybe Peter Vogel could give us some infos on that topic ?

The Series 3 I bought was delivered with three XT1140 HDs, all three 
working
and formatted as systems HD for the Fairlight (with three /k 
partitions)... And my
floppy drive and tape streamer are working fine, so I have OS backup on 
floppies
and sound library on tapes...

In your situation, I would buy a new 8" Floppy drive first. Even though 
someone
has the utils to format your HD, you'll need a working floppy drive to 
do this
process. It would also allow you to backup your /K partitions !  It 
would be my
number one priority for sure !!!

Hope it helps.

     Laurent.


On 22 mars 05, at 19:12, Brian Ronn wrote:

> Hi Laurent
>  
> My adapter is: Iomega Jaz jet ultra pci ver.2.7
>  
> My drive is: Fujitsu M2263SA, Part no: B03B-4945-B613A#NB.
>  
> On my computer I can format the HD and transfer windows files back and 
> forth without any problems. 
>  
> Laurent, what will you do if/when your drives quits? Are you on OS6.03 
> too?
>  
> In my case, my CMI III is dead if my internal HD quits and that is 
> what I'm trying to avoid by struggeling to make backups. But it 
> doesn't go to well at the moment :-|
>  
> If anyone has anything to add concerning how to format an external HD 
> with a CMI III OS6.03 I'm all ears.
>  
> Best regards
>  
> Brian
>  
>   
>
> Laurent Lemaire <llemaire1@free.fr> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> I'm sorry I don't have the utils to format HDs with my rev6.03 ...
>
> However, I'm surprised you're able to use these HD with a
> computer... I tryed to connect mine (Maxtor XT1140) to
> my computers and had some SCSI bus errors... What models
> do you have ? Which model of Adaptec converter board do
> you use ?
>
> Best regards.
>
>     Laurent.
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Brian Ronn <brian_ronn@yahoo.dk>:
>
> > Hi again Laurent
> >
> > I don't like to bug you again and again. I just want to make backup 
> copies of
> > my existing HD's before they'll eventually fail. You mentioned a 
> program that
> > I need to format a rev6.03 CMI 3 HD which is not delivered for the 
> standard
> > CMI. Can you tell me where I might find that program and is it for 
> the CMI or
> > a computer?
> >
> > I've bought identical HD's to the one functioning external drive I 
> have but
> > the CMI doesn't recognize any of them (I use format /c600 and I get 
> the error
> > #222 drive not found). When I hook the drives I want to format up to 
> a
> > computer, the drive id is 6 and everything is fine. So the HD's are 
> OK.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Brian
>
>
>
>
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