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From: ferg@pnet01.cts.com (John Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Spirit HDA-506
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Date: 15 Jul 89 05:16:17 GMT
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I just bought a Spirit HDA-506 adaptor for my A1000 and am having some
trouble getting it to work.  Maybe Someone out there has an idea as to
what my problem is.  In case you dont know, its a adaptor that lets you
hook up standard IBM ST-506 drives to your amiga 1000.

I got it all hooked up ok, did a low level format with no errors.  then
when I ran the verify prg, it comes up with about 14 errors.  The docs say
this is normal and that the supplied prg 'badmap' will map it out.  Now
comes the problem, I mount it the way they tell me to and do an amigaDos
format, but the format fails everytime,...  The docs then say if the
format fails that I should do a Quick format so I did and it spins for a
second or 2 then says initializing and quits, is it really that quick? I
then run the badmap program but it errors saying 'Root block not valid'.

I'm using a Miniscribe 8438 hard drive with a Western Digital controller.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.


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