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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.
Originally these HDD Dewcriptor Files were regular text files which could be editted to add new HDD formats when necessary. More recently Canon has started encrypting the files to prevent them being editted. As such, newer model Canon ImageRUNNER's will require that authentic Canon HDD's be installed should they require replacement. Generic drives may not be on the list of supported drives for the SST and Canon will not release a list of supported drives. Examples of Edittable vs. Encrypted files would be: Edittable: iR2200/2800/3300 iRC3100 iRC5800/6800 Encrypted: iR2270/2870/3370 iRC3380 iRC4580/5180
Now that the new entry is in the HDFormat file you should be able to format the drive on your ImageRUNNER using the SST.