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- From: volks@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Lorraine Van Wingerden)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: External Hard drive problems
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 15:04:54 -0600
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- Hi,
- I have just purchased an external Micropolis 1588 hard drive
- for my NeXT computer, but I am unable to initialize it or build
- it. I have tried doing this under NeXTstep 3.0 and 2.1, but I
- keep getting the same results.
-
- It seems to be formatting with no problem, but everytime I try
- to build or initialize I get error messages giving me I-O errors
- saying it is unable to write to the disk.
-
- Specifically when you boot with the disk attached, it recognizes it,
- asks you if you want to initialize it and then you get
- SD3: Incomplete disk tansfer, bytes moved = 0X1e00, resid=0X1C48,
- retry=1
- SD3: Incomplete disk transfer -FATAL-
-
- The DISK command "FORMAT" seems to work OK, under 2.1 and 3.0, but
- when you "INIT" the disk (from DISK cmd) the MKFS bombs with an I/O
- error that has an address <size of the disk - 1>
-
- The drive had been previously formatted for a Macintosh computer
- successfully and when I first connected it to my NeXT computer,
- it recognized it as a Mac disk. Even after I have formatted it, when
- I reboot my NeXT it recognizes the type of disk and the other
- information, so it seems to be reading from the disk ok.
-
- I suspect it may have something to do with the default parameters that the
- initialize and build commands send to the newfs or mkfs commands.
- I think it is expecting a block size of 1024, but the specs for the
- external drive say it has a block size of 512.
-
- Does anyone have any ideas???
- Please let me know if you need more information.
- Please send responses directly to me.
-
- Thank you,
- Lorraine Van Wingerden
- volks@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
-
-