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From: sullivan@nssg.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Microbotics and Maxtor
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Date: 20 Nov 89 02:37:35 GMT
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In article <8911180603.AA17118@jade.berkeley.edu>, CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET (Jonathan Crone) writes...
"
"That ain't the problem.... the damn thing gurus right on the
"binddrivers.... can't even get close to formatting it
"
"Jonathan P. Crone    CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET
"Amiga-L@uregina1.bitnet List moderator.

    I  have  run  into  this with the HardFrame when working to get a
Omti 3527 controller up with St506  drives.  May  nnot  be  the  same
thing,  but  the  cure for me was to zero the first 100 or so blocks.
There was *something* out there that was giving a GURU 4 until I  did
that and re-prepped the drive.

    If you have another hard drive, you might make sure that IT is at
SCSI address zero, rdprep it to say it has the highest address on the
bus,  and  then  power  down  and  put  the maxtor back on the bus as
address 1. This should give you a fighting chance to rdrep it.

    In my case I just used the C-Ltd controller in my other Amiga (on
the  same  SCSI bus) to mount a partition that consisted of the first
cylinder and did a long amigados format (did not  say  quick).  After
doing this I just RDprep'ed as above.

Hope this helps!

	Steven E. Sullivan