BAUMANN@CZHETH5A.BITNET (05/31/89)
Hi folks We are urgently seeking help for a problem with an ATARI ST ICD host adapter and a new SCSI drive. hard disk specifications: SONY SRD2040Z hard disk drive with following features - ANSI standard SCSI and commands compatible with CCS ANSI X3.131-1986 SCSI Common Command Set Revision 4B - number of heads 4 number of data cylinders 624 maintenance cylinder 1 number of bytes per sector 512 number of sectors per track 33 number of spare sectors per track 1/16 We made following modifications in the file ICDFMT.DAT: i Sony SRD2040Z 04 0624 0624 0624 0675 02 and c c Sony SRD2040Z 01 33 33 000 00 576 ccs.fmt Sony SRD2040Z After starting to format the disk we get following error message: unable to external formatter: ccs.fmt We checked if this file is on the disk. It is there! Does anybody of you folks on the net or from ICD (possibly listening) have an explanation or good advice for whats going wrong or what has to be done to solve our problem. Please send mail to following E-mail address: BAUMANN@CZHETH5A.BITNET Thanks a lot in advance for your help! Hansruedi and Roland