[Coco] RGB-DOS & SCSI Hard Drives

Bruce Calkins bcalkins at disaster-relief.net
Wed Dec 17 20:41:56 EST 2003


I've had a similar problem with my Adaptec SCSI-2-MFM system.  I never have
found out why.  After dancing around with the utilities and such, it just
eventually finds the drive and works.   I really would like to know the
cause and fix.

>  But whenever I try to run the format program to
> format the hard drive, I get an error message after entering in all the
> technical information (and I gather this info from hd-utils in turn which
> reads it from the hd itself).  I gives an IO error when it tries to format
> any of them and when I try the re-initialize drive option in HD-Utils it
> gives a different error message everytime I try a different drive.




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