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DSS-1 SCSI drive formatting instructions

Once you attach a SCSI drive to your DSS-1, you will need to format the drive before
you can use it to store your DSS-1 systems. I only have experience with the SyQuest
44 MB drive on my SCSI DSS-1. If you have experience with others, I would love to
hear from you. Here are the instructions for formatting the SyQuest drive. I expect
the procedure is the same for other drives too.

On the SCSI drive the reset enable switch must be ONand the parity switch must be OFF.

From the Disk Utility, select 9 to format the SCSI drive. Select the drive ID. 0-7 are allowed. 0 is the default for all loads and saves so an extra step is not necessary to select the drive. Select SPEED when asked to optimize. Either will work, however, the size does not really change much at all and the speed is about 2 - 3 seconds versus 9 - 15 seconds. Select 2 for interleave Select YES to "save old defect list". You MUST do this. You cannot get any format to work if you do not select YES to this option. Select YES to ready and erase The format does not take too long but the verify of blocks does take a while.

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