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- From: pwright@crash.cts.com (Phil Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: WORM drive problem
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 02:51:04 GMT
- Organization: CTS Network Services
- Message-ID: <1351.6551T719T2439@crash.cts.com>
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- Cristophe,
-
- >I have a scsi Worm optical drive with 652MB disks from Mitshubishi:
- >It's a Melco MW-5E3.
-
- >The problem is I have'nt got any driver for it .
-
- There isn't a WORM filesystem available for the Amiga so you can't use it
- on your Amiga. I wish there was as I have a Panasonic 940MB WORM drive
- that I would much rather use on the Amiga than on my PC.
-
- >With My amiga, I can recognize it, prepare it with HD-toolbox, but can't
- >format it to the end : the initialisating phase does'nt work ! So I end
- >with a non dos disk.
-
- If you did this, the disk is now useless.
-
- WORM means Write ONCE, Read Many. If you formatted it, you WROTE to each
- and every sector and now you can only read them.
-
- Another issue is that many WORM drives use 1024 byte sectors by default.
-
- There are some hardware devices that control WORM drives and make them
- appear to a SCSI host as a standard r/w drive. Unfortunately they
- typically run about $2000 and so aren't really appropriate for Amiga
- applications.
-
- >On the PC it is more difficult, and I can't do anything with it.
-
- On the PC it is trivial. There are many WORM device drivers available
- commercially. Corel (as in CorelDraw) puts out one that is especially
- nice. You buy the CorelSCSI software package and if you have a proper SCSI
- controller, it's install and go.
-
- Regards,
-
- Phil
-
- pwright@crash.cts.com
-
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