On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:06:35AM +0200, Michael Karcher wrote: > Am Freitag, den 21.05.2010, 23:47 +0200 schrieb Adrian Glaubitz: > > Ok, it was set to 0x00 but that didn't work with the 1GB medium when I > > tried. Are you sure that it shouldn't be: > > > > * Format - 0x00 > > * Erase - 0x01 > > > > where "Format" works on 60/74/80 min media only and "Erase" works on > > 1GB media as well? > No. The Terms might be confusing, but this is how Sony called it in > their library they linked into Hi-MD Music Transfer Software for the > Mac. The idea of "erase" is that the traces of any Hi-MD structure are > completely erased, and the idea of "format" is that the medium contains > data in the right format to store Hi-MD tracks. > > To add confusion, the operation executed by the "Format" command (C2/01) > is named "Erase All" in the Walkman menu, and the operation executed by > the "Erase" command (C2/00) is called "Format" in the walkman menu and > also only available on classic media. Ok, just to confirm. I just successfully formatted a HiMD with the (C2/01) command on Linux. Now it's only MacOS that remains to be tackled. Adrian