Fairlight-CMI

Hallo Norm,

The disks I was trying to format don't have the notch so It's not the 
write enable thing...thanks anyway ...I am also the kind of person to 
forget about that sort of thing.
drive 01 is somehow affected ...it won't write at all.
I swapped drives physicly incl. drive option pins and teminator.,and 
the system is running without problems but it will not load the 
formatter disk in drive 00....it will do so on drive 01 with the 
switch turned to invert on the QFC 9 card.
but the system than tries to format on the bad drive again : (
the drive prob. needs to be repeared (allinged/cleaned?)
I have a spare Y-E DATA   YD-174-1214  drive laying around and hope 
to get that one running.
cheers,
David




--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, NormLeete@... wrote:
>
>  
> In a message dated 04/11/2008 13:25:51 GMT Standard Time,  
dd_62622@... 
> writes:
> 
> Help!
> 
> When trying to format a sound disk on the IIx yesterday  the system 
> halted after a minute telling me:
> 
> format error status -  31 at psn $001a
> 
> **disk 1/0 error - status = 37 at 2298 on drive 1-psn  0024
> 
> **09 chain aborted by sytem error status word
> 
> Am I in big  trouble here ?
> I tried some tests...then I noticed that drive 01 would not  write 
> anymore ..It reads o.k. also under page 2 but when trying to 
create  a 
> new voice the system gives me a write error message.
> tranfering files  works o.k. but when I swapped drives I still 
wasn't 
> able to format a  disk.
> any help appriciated.
> could this just be  dirt?
> 
> 
> 
> David,
> Is the disk write enabled? In other words, is there a notch and the 
front  of 
> the disk and is it covered up with a sticky write protect / enable 
tab.
> I recently nearly threw away some disks I thought were faulty when 
I got  the 
> same message until I noticed that the disks that failed had the 
notch and  
> they weren't covered up. Sticky label applied and they all worked  
perfectly...
> Some disks did not have the notch, so they all worked perfectly..
> Norm
>