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Bart
msx professional
Posts: 646 |  Posted: July 12 2003, 12:51 |
Hi all,
Hope you can help me. connected my Novaxis SCSI device yesterday and after some trouble it recognized my 40MB IBM SCSI HDD. I got it running on SCSI ID 6, and target ID 0. It has 3 partitions, 2 x 16mb and one of 7 mb.
When I try _format and then pick one of the partitions I get asked if i want to write enable or write disable the drive. Which is what's supposed to happen with the Novaxis interface. But when I choose to write -ENABLE- the partition I get an error "write protected" 
Anyone knows how to fix this? |
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Posts: 3048 | Posted: July 13 2003, 01:07 |
_format is not supposed to format your HD. FDISK does, this is the same on other interfaces (at least on my BERT).
But is it really write protected? You can't save any files?
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manuel
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msx guru
Posts: 3368 | Posted: July 13 2003, 15:36 |
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| When I try _format and then pick one of the partitions I get asked if i want to write enable or write disable the drive. Which is what's supposed to happen with the Novaxis interface. But when I choose to write -ENABLE- the partition I get an error "write protected"
Anyone knows how to fix this?
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Yep. Been there, done that! It's all in the FAQ, my boy!  |
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Bart
msx professional
Posts: 646 | Posted: July 13 2003, 21:29 |
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| >>When I try _format and then pick one of the partitions I get asked if i want to write enable or write disable the drive. Which is what's supposed to happen with the Novaxis interface. But when I choose to write -ENABLE- the partition I get an error "write protected"
Anyone knows how to fix this?<<
Yep. Been there, done that! It's all in the FAQ, my boy!
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Wow, really helpful reply. Might just aswell not reply at all eh....
Ofcourse I have already RTFM. But I could only read what I could find via the MSX f.a.q. because i haven't got any paper manuals. |
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manuel
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msx guru
Posts: 3368 | Posted: July 14 2003, 09:50 |
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| >>>>When I try _format and then pick one of the partitions I get asked if i want to write enable or write disable the drive. Which is what's supposed to happen with the Novaxis interface. But when I choose to write -ENABLE- the partition I get an error "write protected"
Anyone knows how to fix this?<<
Yep. Been there, done that! It's all in the FAQ, my boy! <<
Wow, really helpful reply. Might just aswell not reply at all eh....
Ofcourse I have already RTFM. But I could only read what I could find via the MSX f.a.q. because i haven't got any paper manuals.
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I didn't talk about TFM, but about the FAQ. There's a question with answer there about your problem. Did you read it? And then: did you do what it suggests? |
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Bart
msx professional
Posts: 646 | Posted: July 14 2003, 12:53 |
If you mean: http://faq.msxnet.org/scsi.html
then yes, i've read that. But I can't find anything on how to solve the problem. The only thing about write protection in there is changing host id's. But I've already tried all of them, and that doesn't solve it. |
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POISONIC
msx professional
Posts: 883 | Posted: August 01 2003, 20:36 |
well bart you should change your host id to 7 and the target to 0 is it an old 5,5 inch hard disk if it is this is your problem
good luck
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POISONIC
msx professional
Posts: 883 | Posted: August 01 2003, 20:44 |
 i had the same problem
and it was the host id setting its a kind of safety so that a other computer in a scsi netwok!
the highest host id rules the lower id's
and you also should change (in the boot menu) press del when start up!
extended partion into enabled and also multiple hd suport!
for more questions go to www.msxboard.com
become a member! first
and just post a new post in the hardware section!
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