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- From: philb@soda.berkeley.edu (Philip Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Formatting probs: unsupported controllers?
- Date: 3 Sep 1992 01:42:40 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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- Keywords: Quantum, Fujitsu
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- I have two drives I'm having problems formatting. the smaller one is a
- Quantum 40S. I thought that one would be no problem, since I have a 105
- working nicely. but no luck. Gives me an error, upon partitioning, or
- something. does a low-level format aparently, and then error`s out on
- block 3 (0 relative), "vendor-specific error: illegal command" , or
- variations on a theme.
-
- ALSO.. there's this Fujitsu THING, M2246E, with an "ASDI" SCSI bridgecard
- on it. This one I KNOW it is possible to use, cause I was using it. then
- it developed some bad sectors, so I tried to reformat it. It gave the
- same error as the Quantum! errored out.
- Now this Fujitsu is really wierd, cause I called Fujitsu, got them to fax
- me the complete specs on it, bytes per track, jumper settings, the whole
- shebang. I've got it set for hard sectoring, 35 sectors per track, and it
- does the low-level format thing, and then bombs out on relative block 0.
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- Unfortunately, I can't get a hold of the guy who formated it originally.
- (but it was labeled as a TOSHIBA!)
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- Can anyone even explain what's happening, let alone a solution?
- (incidentally, my system is a 4/110. I tried formatting it on someone
- else's 3/50, but that didn't work either. same error)
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- Philip
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