[Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100 hard disk write errors

[andy]

> I usually just buy bare drives themselves on eBay, but i guess you got a

> "free" SE out of the deal!


heh yeh, total lack of small scsi drives on ebay at the moment it seems, all 
are 1gig+


> You need to use the V1.4 service disk, which has the "scsi format"

> options.   You'll set it to a generic SCSI drive (either 256 or 512 byte

> sectors), instead of all those specific options.   The setup/format

> utility disk you're using doesn't have the correct options for

> formatting a generic SCSI disk.


ok, that makes sense... now the problem is that i have tried the service 
disk from flippers ftp that i think is marked 09/02 CSS only... that is the 
one that had the afformentioned options (none for scsi) so i found the v6 
service disk (well, it was in the v6 rar) and tried to boot on that, the 
9100 says something like 'the disk does not match your board' so i can only 
assume that this is a  serial number issue (godamn you fluke). so that disk 
is out of bounds..

i've searched through every other rar in the flippers ftp for the 1.4 
service disk and cannot find it... if you have the 1.4 service disk corey, 
could you dump it through teledisk and send it to me (and flippers i guess) 
? i'm hoping it doesn't have the serial number issue like the v6 disk i just 
tried, do you have the original corey? i wonder if its matched to your 
system...

i tried the hdr-flop.td0 in case it might have a utility on it, but it 
doesn't boot the 9100 like the system or the service disks...

This is turning into a bit of an epic, but if i am successful then i'll do a 
write-up on how to do it, save other people a lot of time and effort :)

Andy