After my adventure with the Syquest drive, I thought I would use qxltool
and see if I could get my second QWA partition working.
I figured I would use qxltool to format the second partition and then see
if I can accesses it. I have 4 partitions:
1 QWA 256 Meg
2 QWA 256 Meg
3 SWP 128 Meg
4 LNX rest of 6GB drive
I used qxl in the following way:
qxltool -W /dev/hda2 256 Label
It seemed to be working fine until it showed 105% formatted. I stopped it
at about 120%. I rebooted to SMSQ/E and found that I no longer have a
win1_ drive (nor a win2_ etc.).
Did I do something wrong? Why did qxltool even touch the first partition?
Now the problem is how to get everything back to where it was. Has the
FORMAT command been fixed? I remember when I first got the Q40, FORMAT
would totally ignore any partitions and format the entire drive. Since I
still have a LNX partition, I don't want to experiment and found out it's
still broken.
So, what I first have to do is to load Linux off of floppy, mount the LNX
partition, then run qxltool to format the first two partitions (I hope it
works), and then restore off of floppy (if SMSQ/E can find the disk).
I'm looking for a little advice from folks that might have been in the same
position. I'd also like to know the state of the existing tools we have
for working with hard drives. I've had very bad luck with SMSQ/E and HD's,
including the Syquest issue (I've followed instructions out of the Q40
manual for formatting the Syquest drive and I get errors. WIN_FORMAT 0
gives "invalid parameter" error.).
Sigh...................................
Tim Swenson
