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From: greg@noel.CTS.COM (J. Gregory Noel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Hard drive formatting failure
Message-ID: <0998.AA0998@noel>
Date: 27 Dec 89 04:17:25 GMT
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I'm way behind in this group, so this problem may have been resolved, but...

Socrates (kpicott@alias.UUCP) writes:
>When I try to format them I get the error "Format failed.  Handler not
>found.".  ...

Joe Smith (jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM) writes:
>For devices, three things must match exactly.  The name in the mountlist,
>the name in the DEVS: directory, and the name stored internal to the
>device handler itself.  ...

I had the same problem with the handler not being found.  I checked the
spelling \everywhere/ and it all agreed, but it still didn't work.  While
I was fiddling with it, I got a copy of WB1.3.2 and tried it.  Suddenly,
the handler was findable, and the format was successful.  I still don't
know why, but if you still haven't gotten it working, you might try that.

Onward,
-- 
J. Gregory Noel, UNIX Guru         greg@noel.cts.com  or  greg@noel.uucp