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Re: mfx3+ disk formatting

2009-02-14 by big bloke

could be!
How would I know?
How do I reformat?
Done the diskinit procedure. no luck!

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Rance" <steve@...> 
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> Hi Daza,
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> Is there any chance this disk was formatted as FAT16 or FAT32 (or 
even
> NTFS) before you attached it to the MFX? 
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> [Steve]
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> ________________________________
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> From: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of big bloke
> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 9:13 AM
> To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] mfx3+ disk formatting
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> Hi Guys!
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> Looking for some MFX3+ owners that are UK based.
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> Here's my problem.
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> Can't seem to format a 36gb seagate to FLFS on my machine.
> See's it on boot and it's there, attached, but I get a cache error 
> message!
> So I quit/shell, do my usual "diskinit/ts20-w <RETURN>" for 
formatting 
> and "Nothing"!
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> Need to get another MFX3+ machine, to format the disk.
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> Any ideas?
> 
> Daza
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