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The SST provides the ability to properly format new hard drives or reformat corrupted hard drives in Canon ImageRUNNERs.
Sometimes you will try to format a drive and will receive a message advising you that the unit has an invalid disk installed. This
message indicates that the ImageRUNNER has a non-standard (Read: Non-Canon) HDD installed and the SST does not recognize it.
When you load the firmware for a Canon device into the SST part of the information provided is a list of valid hard drive
designations for the model. This list of HDD's not only specifies the name of each valid drive type but also the hardware specifications
such as number of read/write heads, platters, surfaces, segment sizes and other technical data describing the features and capacity of the
HDD to the SST. Canon updates these lists when they use different forms of drives in the different models of copiers and when you
install a more recent version of the firmware for a model into your SST you are also updating this list of HDD's.
iRModel-XXxx####-HDFormat.ift
iRModel: This will be the model designation for the unit. iR2200 for example. iRXXXX files are encrypted.
XX: A double X appears in this position for all such files.
xx: This is the language designator for the firmware files. Since the HDD file is universal this is always xx.
####: This is a version number which will correspond to the firmware version number you see in the SST.
HDFormat: The type of file which is always HDFormat for the HDD Desriptor file.
.ift: The Windows file type. This is used for all Canon Firmware files.
If the Read-Only box is checked, uncheck it and click the OK button. If it isn't checked you can just
click on the OK button without making any changes.
My example drive is to be a Toshiba MK8025GAS drive. I have located an entry for the
Toshiba MK2023GAS drive which is very similar.
Edit the new entry to match your drive. in this case i changed 2023 to 8025 creating an
entry in the table for my MK8025GAS drive.
Now that the new entry is in the HDFormat file you should be
able to format the drive on your ImageRUNNER using the SST.