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Hi,
I have just purchased an external Micropolis 1588 hard drive 
for my NeXT computer, but I am unable to initialize it or build
it.  I have tried doing this under NeXTstep 3.0 and 2.1, but I 
keep getting the same results.

It seems to be formatting with no problem, but everytime I try
to build or initialize I get error messages giving me I-O errors
saying it is unable to write to the disk.

Specifically when you boot with the disk attached, it recognizes it,
asks you if you want to initialize it and then you get 
SD3: Incomplete disk tansfer, bytes moved = 0X1e00, resid=0X1C48,
     retry=1
SD3: Incomplete disk transfer -FATAL-

The DISK command "FORMAT" seems to work OK, under 2.1 and 3.0, but
when you "INIT" the disk (from DISK cmd) the MKFS bombs with an I/O
error that has an address <size of the disk - 1> 

The drive had been previously formatted for a Macintosh computer
successfully and when I first connected it to my NeXT computer, 
it recognized it as a Mac disk.  Even after I have formatted it, when
I reboot my NeXT it recognizes the type of disk and the other 
information, so it seems to be reading from the disk ok.  

I suspect it may have something to do with the default parameters that the 
initialize and build commands send to the newfs or mkfs commands.
I think it is expecting a block size of 1024, but the specs for the
external drive say it has a block size of 512.

Does anyone have any ideas???
Please let me know if you need more information.
Please send responses directly to me.

Thank you,
Lorraine Van Wingerden 
volks@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca