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SyQuest 44 Help

    14-Jul-93 08:25:39
Sb: #107047-SyQuest 44 Help
Fm: BILL LEACH 71330,2621
To: mark hinz 74206,1453
Mark; The SyQuest can be very confusing. First of all, not all SyQuest ROM versions work very well. The older one's had serious problems (most of which had some form of "work around"). Since the "as delivered" A3000 has the internal HD set to SCSI ID#6 I'll assume that it is unchanged (machine behaviour with the SyQuest at higher address than the internal is considerably different but as a pracitcal matter it is not possible to put the SyQuest above the internal without lowering the internal drive's SCSI ID). If you are using HDToolBox, you want to low level format each cartridge, partition the cartridge (almost everyone partitions a SyQuest as one partition). Save changes to the drive. Reboot. The drive should show up with an icon on the WB but the name will be either "garbage" or "'Device':NODOS". Perform an AmigaDOS format of the cartridge. At this point the cart. should be useable. -bill