Phaser 850 or 860 hard disk require initializing 1

[JohnSee]

I have a Phaser 860DX that could not find the hard disk. I removed and reformated it and reinstalled. The printer now finds the hard disk but says it is not initialised. I have installed a hard disk from a little used Phaser 850 which works but I do need to get a hard disk in both printers. The Xerox website says that a non Xerox hard disk will need to be initialized but doesn't say how to do it. Old posts mention : HD.EXE, INITDSK.PS and FRMTDISK.PS files but I can't find them anywhere.

Does anyone know how I go about resurrecting the old disk or a brand new disk? Thanks

 

[datchupokey]

Below is a text file of the FORMAT.PS file. Save it with a .PS extention and send it to the printer using a DOS copy command or the Xerox "filedownloader" utility. Other references to HD problems require a CD set from escalated hardware supprt and they won't readily send those out.



% Copyright (c) 1992, Tektronix, Inc. All rights reserved.

% Version 2.1

%

% After this file is sent, all writeable SCSI disks attached to the

% printer will be reformatted and the PostScript file system will be

% created.


systemdict/languagelevel known

{languagelevel 2 eq

{true (0) startjob dup not{/exitserver errordict/invalidaccess get exec}if}

{false}ifelse}if{statusdict /diskonline known}{false}ifelse dup


% Determine the addresses of the SCSI disks currently attached to the

% printer. For each disk found, determine if it is writeable. If so,

% format the disk.


{ [ (%disk*%) {} 100 string /IODevice resourceforall counttomark dup 0 gt

{array astore { dup currentdevparams /Writeable get {1 dict dup

/InitializeAction 2 put setdevparams } { pop }ifelse } forall }if cleartomark

} if


{false (0) startjob pop} if



 

[JohnSee]

Thank you, I now have a fully functional working Phaser 860DX.
John