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Date:	Mon, 28 Oct 2002 00:01:08 PST7
From:	"Info2SYNass.NET" <Info@SYNass.NET >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Fujitsu 1.3GB SCSI MO-Unit and HPFS

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Hi Larry
thanks a lot for your answer and the explain of "How to".

After reading your "How to" is started my first tries but was not
successfull ...
... even more worse: My system trapped ever and ever again
started loud
rumoring like a starting airplane ;-(
I do not know what has happened but did additional tries with
DaniN512.FLT
(version 0.1.4) instead and also got some curious results:

The media in Drive M: cannot get formatted. Depending on the
parameters
in CONFIG.SYS (either /o or /r) the MO media is displayed as
small floppy
with up to 2.88MB capacity only ...
Trying to create the partition with FDisk shows a capapcity of
295MB instead
of 1.3GB ;-((

I do have an icon of the MO drive but OS/2 is not able to get
access to it but
DOS (with FAT formatted media) does work !?

For now I have to stop my further experiments.
Need to do some month end administrations and the monthly backup
!!!

I will give more tries next weekend.
Once again thanks, exspecially for the mental guidance ;-))

Regards, svobi

larry.tawa@worldnet.att.net on 27.10.2002 17.03.48
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Subject: SCOUG-Help: Fujitsu 1.3GB SCSI MO-Unit and HPFS

In <21739.05.28.18.27.10.2002@dslextreme.com>, on 10/27/2002
at 05:26 AM, "Info2SYNass.NET" said:

>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
;-((
>drive currently !

snip

Good morning,

Last century, I was using a ThinkPad 560, Adaptec PCMCIA 1460
SCSI-2
adapter and a Fujtsu 640SE MO drive. IBM USA, IBM Canada, and
IBM Japan
websites were of no use. IBM Japanese (note spelling) drivers
were not
useful to me.

Finally with help from various people, I put together a synthesis
of ideas
on 11 June 2000 which worked for me. I have only changed the
names of the
people that I wrote the email to.

HTH,

Larry

"YYYYY & XXXX,

A pleasure to meet YYYYY at WarpTech 2000 - your suggestion to
rescan
DejaNews helped: the appropriate references in March 2000 paid
off!

To run HPFS on a Fujitsu MO 640SE drive; assuming that one has the
appropriate SCSI drivers loaded:

(1) do *not* install the MODISK.SYS driver included on the
Fujitsu MO
640SE drive's CD-ROM. The MODISK.SYS driver *only* allows FAT
partitions.
So put that CD-ROM in storage in case you need Window's support
later.

(2) Do not use/need OPTICAL.DMD driver.

(3) n512_001.zip (attached to this email) located at Hobbes
contains
N512DASD.FLT driver; from the readme file located within
n512_001.zip:

snip (ie in your config.sys file)

.

.

.

BASEDEV=XDFLOPPY.FLT

BASEDEV=N512DASD.FLT /v

BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD /of /rf

.

.

.

after booting with N512DASD.FLT you should see one more HD,
which you
will need to partition and so on...
snip

(4) Warp 3 Fixpack 35 or Warp 4 Fixpack 6 with removable media
support (?)
*may* be the minimum for the N512DASD.FLT driver to function.
One would
have to read the enclosed files within n512_001.zip more closely
than I
have.

(5) FDISK (you are right, YYYYY) than FORMAT the MO disk with
HPFS!

(6) Miscellaneous:

a) The Fujitsu 640SE MO drive must be on at time of system
bootup; the
MO disk does *not* have to be in the MO drive at system bootup or
system
shutdown.

b) When one inserts the MO disk in the Fujitsu 640SE MO
drive, the MO
disk must *not* be write-protected or else the disk will not be
"loaded"
properly & then the MO disk must be made writable (ie non
write-protected)
and then CHKDSK X: /F:2 with all data intact.

c) When one inserts the MO disk in the Fujitsu 640SE MO
drive, with a
writable MO disk (ie non write-protected), all data is intact and
the MO
disk functions as say a floppy but with HPFS (assuming that you
have
formatted the MO disk as HPFS).

d) to eject the MO disk, at an OS/2 command prompt: "eject X:"

e) X: is the drive letter of the MO drive.

Hope this is useful.
Regards.
Larry

ThinkPad 560 Warp 4 FP 13 with Adaptec PCMCIA 1460 with
appropriate SCI-2
adapter"

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"Larry Tawa"
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