Help! Anyone with BMS200, Micropolis 1357 hard drive or HDX301

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From: Christopher 'Merlin' Williamson
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 1989 00:43

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I need help getting my hard drive to format!

My setup is a BMS200 card, Micropolis 1357 180MB hard drive, Atari 520
using BMSINIT.PRG version 2, HDX 3.01, and would be willing to try Supra

I have tried both BMSINIT.PRG and HDX301 and could not format the
thing!  I do have PARITY disabled.  I believe I should be setting the
drive information to 11 heads, 1024 cyl, 34 s/t.  Has anyone gotten a
Micropolis 1357 formatted?  If so, please send me a message telling me
what jumpers are set?  I have only W9 set on the back.  I have the
default jumpers on the reverse of the SCSI card on the drive.

I would like to be able to use HDX301 since the 180MB requires the
bigger partitions HDX offers.  Has anyone gotten a non-ST506 or
Megafile drive to work with HDX?  Berkeley said that many drives dont
work with HDX and Atari doesnt care since it only supports (!@#%$)
their own drives.

I greatly appreciate your help.

Chris

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Subject: Help!  Anyone with BMS200, Micropolis 1357 hard drive or HDX301
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