#Syquest drive trouble
Well, I've got my 105Meg Syquest drive. That's the good news. The bad news is
it doens't fit/work. At least, not yet. First, the fit: This is a half height
3.5" unit, and it would almost fit beautifully just under the internal diskette
drive on my A4000, except the IDE disk cable will not reach that far,and I
suspect the front cover is just a little too small. I think I can shave a few
mm's off the front cover, but finding a different IDE cable might be more of a
challenge.
Now for the not working part: The system sort of recognizes it, but SYSINFO
tells me it is a TAPE drive, not a disk. When I run HDTOOLBOX to partition the
cartridge, I go thru the steps of telling it the number of heads, etc, etc, but
when I try to save the changes, I get error -1 on the write.
I'll call Syquest tomorrow, but in the meantime, does anyone have any ideas on
what I might be missing?