aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson) (04/14/90)
I've just bought an STE. When I connected my hard drive to it all seemed to be going well for a while, then I realised my drive was being trashed as I was working! It was hopeless, the more I did, the more it trashed. I re-connected the thing to my old ST (not a trivial task - it takes power from a leaad which must be connected to the ST's motherboard) but sure enough it really was trashed! I put it back on my STE. I was a bit peeved at this point but I thought it'd at least give me a chance to re-format it with nice big partitions (TOS 1.4/6 can take bigger partitions that 16meg can't it?). Anyway I loaded up the format software (by GE-SOFT) and re-formatted, then re-partitioned. However no matter what I did it just wouldn't write any size of partition to the drive! Back on to my STFM. Re-formatted, re-partitioned OK. My drive was up and running again! Once again on to my STE. The drive autobooted, all partitions were there! So I saved a DESKTOP.INF file on the disk but to my horror it appeared as two rather random files taking up 11megs! Can *anyone*, *anywhere* send me with a HD formatter that'll format a Seagate 157N drive, that works with the new TOS? I think it must be the format software that doesn't work, but I suppose it could be the driver software too (however, the drive is advertised as being STe compatible). Eternal thanx, -Mark.