Fairlight-CMI

Hi David,

 You won't like this but it is not possible to partition a 4 gig drive from
a OS 9.34 CMI. You have to use a OS 11.39 - 11.40 MFX software version which
has a completely updated diskpart utility. You can also use any size SCSI
drive as far as I know but the CMI will only make 4 gig maximum available. I
have two 9 gig drives but only 4 gig is available. I had the same trouble as
you when I only had my OS 9.34 CMI. I have now formatted and partitioned my
drives without a problem for both CMI's.
 I formatted my 4 gig drives as follows: 6 X 650 meg partions + 7th
partition of 180 meg ( leftover )
I can easily access these partitions from any page in the CMI. The advantage
of smaller partitions is that the directory will display the sounds much
quicker. If you have say 1 directory of 4 gig then it will take ages to
display the sounds each time you page to the directory.
 Even though I format with the 11.40 CMI I can simply install the OS 9.34
software into the proper k partitions. OS 9.34 requires 3 k partitions and
OS 11.40 requires 4 k partitions.
 In fact anyone who needs their CMI drives formatted and partitioned, please
get in contact I would be more than happy to help.

Regards,


James Thomson

Magic Audio Co.
The Studio
West Hampstead
London NW2 3RJ
U.K.






On 30/3/04 7:02 am, "David J. Wilson" <jeepcherokee_10@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> can anyone post the exact commands in 9.34 for
> partitioning and formatting each of up to
> four external 4GB SCSI HD's ?
> 
> I've got four Seagate Barracuda SCSI-2 4GB HD's connected to
> my Rev 9.34 CMI's External SCSI connector on the rear of my chassis.
> 
> The four hard drives are set to SCSI ID's 4,5,6,7
> External SCSI active terminator is plugged into the end of the SCSI
> chain at the last drive.  The jumpers at each drive for on-board
> termination are disabled, I'm using the external terminator plug.
> 
> at CMI boot, the diag screen shows the detection of the 4 external
> SCSI devices 4,5,6,7 in addition to the internal SCSI devices 0
> (boot HD) and 1 (tape drive).
> 
> what are the names of the external SCSI drives to CHD to ?
> I've tried 
> "CHD /SC400"
> "CHD /SC500"
> "CHD /SC600"
> "CHD /SC700"
> but get Error #222 - Device Not Found
> 
> I don't seem to have a command called "INQ"
> my Partgen command is v1.04
> my DiskPart command is v1.01
> my DiskInit command is V2.00
> 
> please help !
> David
> 
>