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Hi Harry   
thanks a lot for your prompt answer ;-)  
 
Since a while I have tried so many things ...  
... that I do not recognize anymore how and what to do ;-(  
 
Whatever and however I tried ...  
... I had disappointings only and I am very frustrated yet ;-|  
 
On the other hand I know that I had it working ;-|  
But HOW ??? I really do not know ;-((  
 
At the moment I feel totally burned-out ...  
... and have absolutely no idea anymore ;-((  
 
If I would not know that my idea is good ...  
... I really would throw my MO stuff into shredder !!  
 
Before giving up really I call for "last" help with you SCOUG  
folks ;-)  
 
I would appreciate someone having this kind of unit guiding me   
step by step to bring it working again ;-))  
 
Regarding of "How to" and ideas to this unit my brain is totally  
empty ;-((  
Sorry for not having a better answer yet  
svobi  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
hmotin@attglobal.net on 27.10.2002 15.34.12  
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Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Fujitsu 1.3GB SCSI MO-Unit and HPFS  
 
Hello svobi,  
I'm not sure I can help you, because I do not fully understand  
what you  
are doing in your (failed) attempts to format a hard drive, or a  
partititon on a hard drive. For example, are you trying to do  
this from  
an all up OS/2 system and you want to HPFS format another  
partition  
(different than your boot partition)? Are you trying to format  
another  
partition from a maintenance OS/2 bootup partition? Are you  
trying to  
format from a set of OS/2 utility boot diskettes?  
 
Also, when you attempt to format as HPFS, exactly what happens on  
your  
system?  
 
That being said, therefore, please excuse my response (below), if  
you  
have already taken into account the things that I am going to say!  
 
In any case you have first create one or more partitions on the  
hard  
drive, using Ddisk or LVM. Ddisk will assign a drive letter to the  
partition and LVM will let you assign the letter.  
 
After you have the partition and drive letter and can then invoke  
format.com. Go to the commandline in your OS/2 partition (or the  
commandline in your maintenance partition; or the commandline  
resulting  
from the bootup from the utility diskettes). Type and enter  
"FORMAT C:  
/FS:HPFS" (without the quotes; also change the "C:" portion of  
that  
command to the particular partition that you what to format; for  
example, if you what to HPFS format the "F:" partition, the  
command at  
the commandline would be "FORMAT F: /FS:HPFS" (again, without the  
quotes)).  
 
If you are using the utility boot diskettes, you have to have the  
"FORMAT.COM" file on that diskette (I think??). If you are using  
an all  
up OS/2 system, or if you are using a maintenance OS/2 system, you  
should be able to use FORMAT from any OS/2 commandline. Of course  
you  
cannot format the same partition from which  you are invoking the  
commandline.  
 
Again, please excuse me, if all of the above is obvious to you!  
It would  
help, if you gave a more descriptive and fuller explanation of  
exactly  
what you are trying to do and what the response of your system is.  
 
HCM  
 
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> Hello  
> Since 1999 I have this unit and use some 540MB and one 1.3GB  
> media.  
>   
> In the old century, I am not really sure anymore, I may had have  
> some  
> medias formatted in HPFS !?!?  
>   
> Now, since a while I am trying, trying and retrying and again to  
> get this  
> HPFS formattings again ;-( Whatever I do and try I do not get it  
> ;-((  
>   
> I had tried the MO640 drivers from Fujitsu, Canada ...  
> I had tried the N512 drivers ...  
>   
> I use (always newest) DaniS506.ADD and DaniDASD, I had tried  
with  
> the IBM1S506.ADD as also IBMDASD ...  
> ... absolutely no success with all my experiments ;-(((  
>   
> Does anybody of you have a hint or a solution for me !!!  
>   
> Regarding this topic:  
> I have prepared each a 540MB MO media as an emergency disk  
> containing  
> all needed files its repective OS subdirectories ...  
> ... but cannot access the MO drive currently !  
>   
> How can I bring my DrDOS 7.03 rescue floppy from the 3 1/2"  
> floppy to the  
> 540MB MO media to get it booting from the SCSI unit ???  
>   
> It would be very intersting too ...  
> ... to get my BootOS2 data onto an 540MB MO media ?!?  
>   
> Is this possible and if yes how do I do this ???  
>   
> Your hints and suggestions are hot awaited ;-))  
> Thanks a lot !  
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