cwilliam@brillig.umd.edu (Christopher 'Merlin' Williamson) (10/07/89)
I need help getting my hard drive to format!
My setup is a BMS200 card, Micropolis 1357 180MB hard drive, Atari 520
using BMSINIT.PRG version 2, HDX 3.01, and would be willing to try Supra
I have tried both BMSINIT.PRG and HDX301 and could not format the
thing! I do have PARITY disabled. I believe I should be setting the
drive information to 11 heads, 1024 cyl, 34 s/t. Has anyone gotten a
Micropolis 1357 formatted? If so, please send me a message telling me
what jumpers are set? I have only W9 set on the back. I have the
default jumpers on the reverse of the SCSI card on the drive.
I would like to be able to use HDX301 since the 180MB requires the
bigger partitions HDX offers. Has anyone gotten a non-ST506 or
Megafile drive to work with HDX? Berkeley said that many drives dont
work with HDX and Atari doesnt care since it only supports (!@#%$)
their own drives.
I greatly appreciate your help.
Chris
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