Tuesday 29 March 2011

Zalman VE200 SATA caddy with virtual ODD


FFS trying to get this to work with a CF card is impossible.... No idea why it won't work....

Always comes up with a "1st Partition: 0", which means it doesn't recognise it

ERROR MESSAGES (using 57N firmware):
Error 23                 (I have no idea what this means but it displayed it even when a valid hard disk was connected that worked fine on a friends VE200!). Try CLEANing/wiping the drive! 
1st Partition: XX    where XX is a number such as 6, B, C, 83, F etc. (the number means 'the partition type of the 1st partition is XX and I DON'T LIKE IT!')
1st Partition: FF    Either 1st partition type is FF or I cannot read/understand the logical partition (volume) format (e.g. type 7 partition but it is formatted as exFAT)
1st Partition: 0      drive is not partitioned
NO - DISC             the VE200 has found the _ISO folder :-) but it contains no valid files with a valid extension (e.g. .iso, .ima, .dsk)
TOO Many FILES  you have more than 32 objects (files + folders) in the _ISO folder or in the user selected folder which is under the _ISO folder. (>32 FILES+FOLDERS! would have been a better message)
ALREADY HIT       you have already selected this file for emulation and it is already loaded
vDISK LIMIT         the VE200 can emulate a max of 4 virtual disks 
NO _ISO               I can read the 1st partition OK but I cannot find any folder called _ISO or _iso
First reset the VE200 back to DUAL MODE as follows: Unplug USB - Press and hold in Jog button - Reconnect USB cable. If this does not work, try:

1. Under Windows 7 run DISKPART, then type LIST DIS and then SEL DISK 2 (assuming disk 2 is your VE200 drive), then type LIST DISK and make SURE the * is against the VE200 drive and then type CLEAN to completely erase the hard disk partitions.
2. Unplug the VE200 and then wait for 20 seconds - then re-connect it whilst pressing in the jog wheel
3. Now partition and format the VE200 hard disk as NTFS PRIMARY.
4. Now use 'Safely Remove Hardware' systray icon to eject it and unplug and re-connect it whilst pressing in the jog wheel

With luck, it should power up and say "NO _ISO".

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