Re: Hard disc formatters! HELP!

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From: R Voisey
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 21:49

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In article <1992Oct03.020619.1767@microsoft.com> felixa@microsoft.com (Felix GTi Andrew) writes:
>I have a new drive for my A5000. Its a Cumulus drive (no I havent heard
>of them either). Anyway its drive number/type is CP3104 which as we all
>know is an IDE number, and the drive is about 100Mgs. The problem is
>that !Hform that I got with my A5000 last year fails to format the drive.

Are you using the unit as your primary drive?  I've had a lot of problems
getting anything other than Conner units to work reliably as the first drive
(although most units work OK as second drives).  I haven't tried a Cumulus
drive (haven't heard of them for that matter), but most Seagate drives have
problems.

>Is there a new version of HForm - like with RiscOs 3.1? The version I got
>seemed to be able to format only 4 types of IDE drive (which is kinda silly)
>I'm not sure what version number it is, but I bought the 5000 around oct19 91.

Acorn sent a memo to dealers a while ago stating exactly which drives are
compatible with the A5000 (basically just Conner drives).  Lots of other
drives WILL work, but you have to fiddle.  This isn't really Acorn's fault - 
IDE has a very poor specification (IMHO) and is open to interpretation.

Sorry I can't advise you on your specific drive.  My advice is to do as I
did and get a SCSI card.

>PS Are there any shows upcomming in England? I'm back for a visit Nov 19-28
>and need a new keyboard!

Perhaps you need a Keyboard Interface, allowing you to use PC keyboards, mice
and so forth..  (advertise?  moi?)

Cheers

Bob

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  Robert J. Voisey  :  r_voisey@csd.brispoly.ac.uk
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162 Staplehill Rd, Fishponds, Bristol, Avon, England

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From: r_voisey@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (R Voisey)
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Subject: Re: Hard disc formatters! HELP!
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