Manual

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 2
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4. Repeat steps 7 through 15 of the procedure, ‘To high-level format side #1 of a
magneto-optical cartridge’.
Partitioned cartridges, inserted into the HP drives, function as DOS logical drives. All
DOS and Q-MIPS commands function normally on rewritable cartridges. Write-once
cartridges, however, cannot be erased functionally once they have been written.
To partition a new MO using AFDISK.EXE with NT
1. Download a file from our FTP site called EBD_95.ZIP.
2. Unzip it to a floppy.
3. With the floppy in the drive, make the floppy bootable by typing this command
from any DOS or Win95 machine:
SYS C: A:
4. Shut down the NT machine that is equipped with the MO drive or drives.
5. Put the floppy in the NT machine, restart it, and allow the machine to reboot from
the floppy.
6. Put a new (never before formatted or partitioned) MO cartridge in your MO drive.
7. At the a:\ prompt, type AFDISK and press [Enter].
8. Select the MO drive you want to partition.
If your MO cartridge is new (unformatted), you will get the message, This disk is not
formatted If your MO cartridge is not new (has already been formatted/partitioned),
AFDISK will say it cannot proceed. Continue with
‘To high-level format side #1
of a magneto-optical cartridge’
on page 32.
C.4.3.3 Restoring Your Backed Up Data after Reformatting
Your reformatted M-O is now ready to receive the data you backed up.
Appendix C: Mass Storage Options