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Well I just may be calling you. I got the drive tonite, and although it seems to work (after some noodling) with the previous owner's Atari ST system, I'm having some troubles getting it to work on mine. The A2090 supports up to 7 SCSI devices, as well as up to 2 ST-506 drives. In the setup of a hard disk, nowhere is it mentioned that one has to "low level format" the hard disk. Indeed this was not necessary when I installed my original SCSI Hard Disk. Perhaps this is what is missing in my use of the Konica. By the way, the drive is a Konica KT-510. I'm not really considering the prime use of it for a hard disk, I have one of those. Primarily I want it to back up the H.D., and it appears on the Atari that it's 3-4 times faster than floppies, which is plenty good for me. On his system it even reads IBM format 5 1/4" disks…an interesting bonus. I've had loads of problems getting it up and running (as usual- sometimes I think 80% of the difficulties are with the A2090, it's strange requirements, and pathetic documentation). I discovered that using the old Hddisk driver (which is OVERWRITTEN on the new version, if that's what you're using- when the C= HD install program is run!), or using the 1.3 Binddrivers command, will result in the drive locking up itself and/or the CPU any time an attempt is made to access it. These revelations cost me several hours in and of themselves. Once I managed to get the combination that didn't shut everything down, when I attempted to format the drive, it seemed to time out after the first cylinder of RES2:, and the main (FFS) partition. Here is my mountlist: (Cont. in next message)