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floptical problems

    31-Oct-93 21:11:56
Sb: floptical problems
Fm: Paul Wright 74135,1044
To: all
Well, after months of using it on the IBM I finally tried to use the 21MB floptical drive on my Amiga. I've got a 2000 with a 68020 accelerator and a 2091 interface card. There's a Seagate 177N as the primary drive on the card. Oh, I'm running 2.04 at the moment. Anyhow, HDToolbox recognizes the Floptical as Device 4 on Unit 0 (the Seagate is 0 on 0). It can read its properties OK. But when I tell it to do a low level format the lights for both the drives (Seagate and Floptical) come on and nothing happens. At least it doesn't wipe the Seagate. Oh, once I've done that I have to remove the power from the Floptical to get the system to boot.