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Yes..I have a 3MB. Here's my system: Amiga 500 .5M internal expansion Subsystem expansion chassis A2090 HD driver Microbotics 8UP! memory board with 2MB loaded Conner CP-340 (752 cylinder version), no terminator pack) Konica KT-510 10.7M floppy Extra 3.5 floppy in Subsystem Modem, printer, etc. I just managed to get both drives to survive on the bus without "killing each other off"… I have to use both the newest HDDISK driver (NOT the old one- that the 2090's setup program OVERWRITES your current one with! ) and the 1.3 BindDrivers command. The current problem I'm having with the Konica is that I can't seem to get it to be recognized as a DOS disk (OFS or FFS), or format it. When I try, it either locks up the SCSI board, or returns a "Not a DOS disk" alert. Often when I try to access it, it seems to put the driver into a loop, and both the 2090's access light, and the one on the drive, come on continuously, with nothing happening. I talked extensively with Steven Kapplin about this, he sent me a "universal" SCSI formatting program with which to low-level format the drive with, but it returns a "Controllers not found" error message. I'm not sure about low-level formatting, since the A2090 says nothing about it, and I thought SCSI took care of stuff like that. Steve came up with a good idea, however: use Quarterback to access the drive- since it uses it's own format, and bypasses FFS, etc., it could at least determine if the drive is working. Lo and behold, the first time I tried it it worked great, …until the last file. Then it came up with a "Write Error" requestor. Every time I've tried it since then, it would give me the error message immediately. I know the diskette is fine, because it was used effectively 2 days ago on another computer. I'm curious about whether I need to map out bad sectors, since I know there are at least 2 of them on the disk, being that the format program that the previous owner used had a whole process it went through (cont. in next msg.)