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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Tapes/HD's

2005-03-22 by Brian Ronn

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

Laurent Lemaire wrote:

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Hi Brian,

To format a HD on a rev6.03 CMI 3, you need a program to format and
partition it which is not delivered in standard. Even though you would
have a formatted rev6.03 HD, you would need to boot on a floppy to
restore the tapes into the /k* partitions...

Hope it helps.

Laurent.

On 15 mars 05, at 21:10, brian_ronn wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> If I backup /k0, /k1 and /k2 onto 3 tapes from my CMI III OS6.03,
> will I then be able to restore these partitions from the tapes on a
> completely new and blank internal harddrive if my old internal drive
> should fail? Or do I need system floppies to boot from before
> restoring from the tapes?
>
> Best regards
>
> Brian
> Denmark
>

Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Tapes/HD's

2005-03-22 by Laurent Lemaire

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>:

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> 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