[Techtoolslist] Samdisk looks very promising...

[John Robertson]

Andrew Welburn wrote:

>

> On 27/11/2012 03:08, John Robertson wrote:

>> David Shoemaker wrote:

>>> Do I need the service disk to format my machine to use 6.1?

>>

>> Unfortunately the answer is Yes - you need a unserialized Service Disc

>> for 6.0 or 6.1 to format your drive or CFC card.

>

> I used the 1.4 service disk to install 6.0 on my fluke... as noted on 

> my webpage :

> http://www.andysarcade.net/personal/tech/fluke9100/index.htm

>

> so i guess the 1.4 service disk is 'unserialised'. I keep hearing 

> mention of serialisation, but to this point have not come up against 

> problems with it at all.

>

> [snip]

>

>> I'm not having any luck yet with using a CF and my SCSI to IDE adapter -

>> which works fine with hard drives, but can't handle the CF for some

>> reason...

>

> Which SCSI adapter are you using? for future reference...

>

> I've just bought an Aztec Monster CF adapter and i'm hoping it'll go 

> smoothly. I have a 9105 arrived (but damaged in the post :( ) that i 

> need to strip and use to fix two other 9100's, hopefully this week!

>

> Andrew Welburn

> http://www.andys-arcade.com

>

>

How did your Aztec Monster work out? Mine isn't happy...get the 
following error message on several different 9100s:

Error Setting 512/Sector Format sensekey: 05 additional: 26

I've tried the jumper at  both "T" and "1",  plus I've tried a Transcend 
128mb (80X) and  SandDisk 1GB CF cards.

I also sometimes get sector errors when attempting to format the CF cards.

Emailed the designer and he said to use a smaller and slower CF (at that 
time I only had found a 1GB CF), so I then tried the Transcend 128mb 
card (no change).

John :-#(#