Path: utzoo!censor!geac!alias!kpicott
From: kpicott@alias.UUCP (Socrates)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Hard drive formatting failure
Message-ID: <668@alias.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 89 14:40:35 GMT
Reply-To: kpicott@alias.UUCP (Socrates)
Organization: Alias Research Inc.
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Well I tried posting this question to c.s.a with no results so maybe the
problem is deeper than I thought.  I have a Fujitsu 2249A SCSI hard drive
that I am trying to format (re-partition actually, it was formatted once
before).  It preps okay and the first partition (using the regular file
system) auto-mounts and formats without any problems.  (FYI, the 2249A has
15 surfaces, 35 blocks per track and 1243 cylinders.)

The second and subsequent partitions are set to use the FastFileSystem.
When I try to format them I get the error "Format failed.  Handler not
found.".  I have checked with the local computer store and Commodore in
Toronto and both have checked over the mountlists etc.. and found them to
be okay.  Has anyone encountered this or a similar problem?

Just to add to the confusion, I tried restoring the original mountlist that
I had formatted the drive on before and *it* gave me the same error.
Commodore suggested that the 2090A might be at fault.  Any other ideas out
there?

Colour me Perplexed.
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 Kevin Picott   aka   Socrates   aka   kpicott%alias@csri.toronto.edu
 Alias Research Inc.  R+D          Toronto, Ontario... like, downtown
 "There can be no offense where none is taken" - Japanese proverb