:angry4: Hi, i need some help with this problem before my wife devorc
me (spending to many hours on the pc). OK here is the problem, i hav
an APEX 4.6 GB Optical Drive in super perfect conditions, in oteh word
i open the drive for the first time on 2/6/2007, it was in storage on m
company, the upgrade the Backup systems and this one was not open,
have a Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz withe 1 GB ram , and my SCSI card is Adapte
AHA-2940AU PCI,, I have try all setting on the External drive, wit
internal termination enabled and disabled, termination power enable
and disabled, all the combination you can imagin, the card detects th
drive with no problem, Windows detects the drive with no problem, if
go to Computer Management-Disk Management the computer detects th
drive ( Disk 1, removable, 2.10GB, online, Healthy) >2.10 GB x 2 sides
if i try to format the media it go all the way to 100% and then th
ERROR, The format did not complete successfully. Please someone
have to make this work, can someone have an idea of what can be th
problem. :confused5: :shaking

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Previously jaybepr <jaybepr@hotmail.com> wrote:

You need to get a more specific error. With this it is impossible to
tell what the problem is. Also please tell us what type of drive
this is, there are several different types of optical drives.
MO? DVD-RAM? Soemthing else?

As to the SCSI-part, there is only one right setting:
Termination on at both endpoints and off everywhere else.

Termination power is not needed with internal terminators,
and should either be turned off everywhere or turned on in at most
one device (otherwise you can blow the fuses under some extreme
conditions).


One thing that might be your problem is sector size. I don't know
about your drive, but I have a MOD and tehre are 512 Byte sector disks
and 2kB sector disks. The latter need special formatting software.
I think XP with SP2 can format them, but earlier versions cannot.
Maybe you just need special formatting software.

After format, there is block size information in the bootsector,
and regular access should work.

Arno

Previously Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote:

P.S.: And by all means, rather loose your job than loose your wive!

Arno

Hi Arno, i think your right i rather loose my job than mi wife., bu
some times i think the other way naaaaaa. Ok my problem is when
try to format the Optical Media (OMDR 4.6GB, 5.25", 1024 bytes/secto
Rewriteble). the format go all the way to 10% but when it FINIS
this is the error i am geting, The format did not complet
successfully. thats nthe problem i have the rest is ok, The compute
detect the drive but when i insert the Media the computer whant me t
formatit, when i try then is the problem. Any help please>>>>

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"Arno Wagner" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:53a6q4F1s6nfcU1@mid.individual.net
Is Google offline again, babblebot?

Of course it is needed, babblebot moron.
Terminators always need power, whether internal or external.
Terminator Power is supplied by the TPWR line in the SCSI
cable unless jumpers on the devices decide different.
The SCSI controller usually supplies Terminator power.

Babblebot utterly clueless again as always. The problem with multiple sour-
ces of TPWR is that the fuses *don't* blow because the total current is
shared by several sources and a fire can get started at the location of a
short if the distributed current stays below each device's fuse rating.

Yeah right.
This isn't a problem for 99.9% of the media but it is for the last .1%?
Idjut.
This is a problem several people have with formatting standard disk
drives too. Nothing to do with MOD.

Says the Idjut that uses Windows exclusively for gaming.

Previously jaybepr <jaybepr@hotmail.com> wrote:

Ok, I still think the problem is the formatting software. Standard
sector size is 512 bytes. Most media are used clustered, i.e. several
sectors are lumped together. That ist why the format works up to until
the end. But then the bootsector is written, an thet is per default
only 512 bytes and likely gives you the error.

You need to tell the format programm either that the base block/sector
size is 1024 Bytes (in Linux, when creating FAT it would be
''mkdosfs -S 1024'' or when partitioning ''fdisk -b 1024'') or you
need to get formatting software that can detect the secor size.
Likely some such software came with the drive or is available from
the drive manufacturer.

One other thing you can try is to copy an already formatted disk with an
imaging application.

Arno

"Arno Wagner" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:53dvrhF1rhdrpU1@mid.individual.net
IOW, the sectors themselves are still 512 bytes.

Whatever.

If the formatter can format clusters to 512 byte sectors then
obviously it has no problem to write a 512 byte bootsector too.

The disksector size should be handled by the device driver automatically.

Bwahahah.