Fairlight-CMI

Has anyone had experience with formatting a second HD for their Series III?

I have 2 IBM SCSI hard drives, one 4MB and one 2MB, yet when I run
scsiformat, the app bombs with a write error before the process starts. The
disks themselves are fine as I have just pulled them out of my PC to use in
the Fairlight and the cable that I am using checks out OK. I have also
properly terminated the SCSI chain and have plugged the cable in the right
way round (i.e. pin 1 one the cable matches pin 1 on the drive). I have
also tried the process both internally, using the space scsi connector on
the cable from the waveform super and externally using a drive bay.

For info, I am using Rev 9.34 and version 3.07 of scsiformat with the
command: scsiformat /SC20 -b=256

I have also tried without explicitly specifying the blocksize but this
doesn't work either. Are there any of the other switch options that need to
be set for this to work correctly?

The 4GB HD is an IBM DDRS-34560  S97BRDG81325 with 8491 Cylnders, and 5
heads, 0 spares/zone and an interleave of 1; similar in spec to the Fujitsu
drive that is my system disk. The 2GB is similar although the Cylnder and
head figures are smaller reflecting the smaller capacity of the disk.

Has anyone else had an similar issues with this type of drive or with
scsiformat?

Whilst I am on the topic I notice that I dont have the diskpart application
on my machine. Does anyone know if cmipart performs the same job?

Thanks,
Chris.
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