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Help with HD Install

    10-Jan-93 00:23:41
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Frank Rogel 73130,2100
Frank, As I said…I'd suggest you have HDToolBox create the entry for the Wren by reading the parameters from the drive itself. At least that way you know it's correct. Many drives don't turn on the drive activity LED when doing a low level format. The Activity LED usually is indicative of activity on the SCSI Bus so the initial flashes you noted are the commands being passed. The drive then goes off-line and does the format…so no activity LED since as far as the SCSI bus is concerned…there's no activity on the bus…it's all being handled in the drive itself. I believe the original drive database only had the Quantums that came with the A2000HD series in it…others the user enters by hand or by having the information read from the drive itself. Don