jdm@gryphon.COM (John Mesiavech) (09/11/89)
All; Does anyone out on the Net have any experience with getting a Syquest SQ550 44MB removable media drive to work with a Microbotics Hardframe-2000 controller? SO far, the drive will low-level format OK, can prep each cartridge allright, BUT..... Upon trying to AmigaDOS format the drive, the drive will format halfway then will abort the format for no discernible reason....i.e. it just stops cold. No error message, no nothing. FORMAT with the Quick option just aborts immediately. Am using Microbotics FormatHF version 1.2 and RDPrep version 1.2. Any hints, advice would be appreciated! John -- 0-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-> All disclaimers apply; I didn't write this <-=-=-=-=-=-0 | ----------------------|------------------- | | "I want a New Duck | John Mesiavech | | One that won't try to bite | net.soldier.of.fortune | | One that won't chew a hole in my socks | {backbone}!gryphon!jdm | | One that won't Quack all night" | Go Purdue! (by req) | | Weird Al Yankovic, "I Want a New Duck" | | 0-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-0
jim@syteke.UUCP (Jim Sanchez) (09/13/89)
I don't know if this is your problem but there are some BIG compatibility
problems with hardframes and Rev 6 motherboards. There may also be problems
with other peoples DMA devices as well - I do not know. I bought a
hardframe almost two months ago and to date still cannot use it on my
2000 because of the compatibility problem. Commodore knows about the problem
and is/has been working it but Microbotics does not know when they will
get the fix. In the meantime, I and I suspect others as well are
sitting on a hardframe that is serving as a boat anchor. I'm a little
pissed off about the entire affair. Not at the people who seem to be
trying their best but the system is FOOBAR. The symptoms I got were
similiar to yours and when I finally did get it formatted, it would
hang the system at the drop of a hat with the disk light on constantly.
This problem is NOT resolved with the U605 chip or resistor mod. They
have been done to the Rev 6 board as manufactured. If ANYONE out there
can tell me if/when this is going to be fixed, it would certainly
be appreciated. I hope this is something I can do myself since I
purchased my 2000 in Germany and I now live in Belgium.
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