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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Strange FORMAT problem with A2090A SCSI
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Date: 5 May 89 13:41:03 GMT
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In <1289@esunix.UUCP>, blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes:
>Here's my mountlist entry in case I've made some stupid blunder there,
>but I just cloned my working ST506 entry, and made the necessary
>changes.


>/* First FFS partition on the CDC Wren III drive */
>CD0:       Device = hddisk.device
>           Unit   = 3
>           Flags  = 0
>           Surfaces  = 9
>           BlocksPerTrack = 35
>           Reserved = 2
>           Interleave = 0
>           LowCyl = 4
>           HighCyl = 263
>           Buffers = 1
>           BufMemType = 0
>           Stacksize = 4000
>           GlobVec = -1
>           FileSystem = L:FastFileSystem
>           DosType = 0x444F5301
>#

Mountlists look good, but you might try more buffers.  I have never been
successful formatting a partition with less than 4 buffers.  I don't know if
that's your problem or not though.

The other possibility is that the drive is not low level formatted. 
If this is the case, then you will have to format it on another
machine/controller, since the 2090 will not do a low level format on a SCSI
drive.

-larry

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