Re: Cant format HD

[brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack)]

 Adalbert spewed forth:

 BYE(| I have a DataFrame XP60 harddrive with mac software on it.
     | When I try to reformat  in prodos, I cant do it since
     | "NO DEVICE CONNECTED". So, how do I reformat?

You have to use whatever utilities exist for your drive card.  A
fer-example is this 80-meg Seagate I found in a thrift, which I put in
one of my drive cases (swapping out a Quantum 40-meg).  I got the drive
installed physically, then I booted up the computer and hit "0" so my
RamFast utilities would come up.  There, it identified the drive and
size, and a click on "Initialize" did a low-level format.  Now the
computer *knows* the drive is there.  From there I partitioned the drive
so I'd have three ProDOS volumes recognised.

If you don't use whatever SCSI utilities you have, the Finder may or may
not allow you to format them and/or your drive card will not recognise
that you even have a drive (which happened to me; I'd turned on the
computer and since the drive was formatted on a PC it was not recognised
as a real HD, so I had to activate the RamFast utils on next powerup).

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