olePigeon
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I figured I'd fiddle around with my Jackhammer. Tried out a 15k RPM SCSI drive. Was insanely fast. Funny watching it format and then create 16 2GB partitions.
Unfortunately, I discovered that so long as the Jackhammer card is installed, my Fujitsu drive won't mount any MO disks. I even tried erasing them with FWB HDT and using the FWB driver, but no go.
There is a list of specific MO drives in the manual that it says it's compatible with, but I was very disappointed to learn that it won't work with my MCR3230SS Fujitsu.
At first I thought maybe it just didn't like the 2GB cartridges, but I tried a 640 and 230, and nothing but problems. 640s behaved the same as the 2Gs, but the 230s would at least mount. They wouldn't copy files without freezing the computer, though.
Everything works perfectly fine when the Jackhammer card is removed from the computer. Interestingly, if I hold down Command-Option-J to disable the Jackhammer card, it will freeze the computer while the Fujitsu drive is connected.
Really weird.
I was going to try my 230 drive to see if it worked, but I had lost the will to continue as I had spent a solid 2 days troubleshooting. Very, very unfortunate.
The card does have the latest 3.2 firmware. Unless there's a newer firmware floating out there, but I couldn't find one. I'd love it if there's an updated firmware someplace to support the newer Fujitsu drive.
Unless someone wants to hack together a working firmware?
Unfortunately, I discovered that so long as the Jackhammer card is installed, my Fujitsu drive won't mount any MO disks. I even tried erasing them with FWB HDT and using the FWB driver, but no go.
There is a list of specific MO drives in the manual that it says it's compatible with, but I was very disappointed to learn that it won't work with my MCR3230SS Fujitsu.
At first I thought maybe it just didn't like the 2GB cartridges, but I tried a 640 and 230, and nothing but problems. 640s behaved the same as the 2Gs, but the 230s would at least mount. They wouldn't copy files without freezing the computer, though.
Everything works perfectly fine when the Jackhammer card is removed from the computer. Interestingly, if I hold down Command-Option-J to disable the Jackhammer card, it will freeze the computer while the Fujitsu drive is connected.
Really weird.
I was going to try my 230 drive to see if it worked, but I had lost the will to continue as I had spent a solid 2 days troubleshooting. Very, very unfortunate.
The card does have the latest 3.2 firmware. Unless there's a newer firmware floating out there, but I couldn't find one. I'd love it if there's an updated firmware someplace to support the newer Fujitsu drive.
Unless someone wants to hack together a working firmware?