Fairlight-CMI

Hi Chris,

yes, I've formatted 4 external 4GB Seagate Barracuda ST-15150N
SCSI-2 hard drives on my Series III Rev 9.34.   I used the diskpart
command from OS 11.39 because I'm told that it's the best
formatting software rev for 4GB drives.  I booted my CMI
with an OS 11.39 floppy and used the 11.39 diskpart 
command to setup the drives:

diskpart /scx0 -h -s=4000

the value of x is the SCSI ID of the new drive. 

This does a hard format and limits the drive to 4GB and it
installs 8 software partitions.  You do this from the shell,
not from within the CMI software.  You need to exit from CMI,
not just shell out.

Each hard format takes about 15-20 minutes to complete
on a 4GB drive.

I installed all of these four 4GB drives in an external SCSI
4-bay drive case (SUN Microsystems white case, looks cool).
This is in conjunction with my internal IBM 4GB SCSI drive in
the CMI chassis.

I think you need the diskpart command, it should be there
on your boot drive (at least the rev 9.34 version should be)

hope this helps,

David



--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Chris Haworth 
<christopher.haworth@u...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Has anyone had experience with formatting a second HD for their 
Series III?
> 
> I have 2 IBM SCSI hard drives, one 4MB and one 2MB, yet when I run
> scsiformat, the app bombs with a write error before the process 
starts. The
> disks themselves are fine as I have just pulled them out of my PC 
to use in
> the Fairlight and the cable that I am using checks out OK. I have 
also
> properly terminated the SCSI chain and have plugged the cable in 
the right
> way round (i.e. pin 1 one the cable matches pin 1 on the drive). I 
have
> also tried the process both internally, using the space scsi 
connector on
> the cable from the waveform super and externally using a drive bay.
> 
> For info, I am using Rev 9.34 and version 3.07 of scsiformat with 
the
> command: scsiformat /SC20 -b=256
> 
> I have also tried without explicitly specifying the blocksize but 
this
> doesn't work either. Are there any of the other switch options 
that need to
> be set for this to work correctly?
> 
> The 4GB HD is an IBM DDRS-34560  S97BRDG81325 with 8491 Cylnders, 
and 5
> heads, 0 spares/zone and an interleave of 1; similar in spec to 
the Fujitsu
> drive that is my system disk. The 2GB is similar although the 
Cylnder and
> head figures are smaller reflecting the smaller capacity of the 
disk.
> 
> Has anyone else had an similar issues with this type of drive or 
with
> scsiformat?
> 
> Whilst I am on the topic I notice that I dont have the diskpart 
application
> on my machine. Does anyone know if cmipart performs the same job?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris.
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