dehart@darth.UUCP (Ed DeHart) (09/19/86)
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I have had a 10 megabyte drive online as my second drive and just replaced
it with a Quantum Q540 40 megabyte drive. Neither drive is supported by
Convergent Technologies and I had to create my own drive description files
for the iv program. The following is a copy of my description files.
Since the drives are mounted as the second drive I did not include a loader
or download area. The second port on a Miniframe was designed to be used with
a syquest drive and the Miniframe will try to boot from it which is something
you don't want to happen.
Thanks, Ed DeHart / wa3yoa
{allegra, bellcore, cadre, idis, psuvax1}!pitt!darth!dehart
PS - Yes a Miniframe can support two hard disk drives even though CT reports
it can't. It takes a few cables and a power supply for the drive. No magic
required.
------------------<desc.10S>--------------------
# description file for a ST-412 10 meg Seagate
type HD
name Winche
cylinders 306
heads 4
sectors 17
steprate 0
precomp 64
$
badblocktable 1
$
$
0
8
$
$
------------------<desc.40Q>--------------------
# description file for a Q540 Quantum
type HD
name Winche
cylinders 512
heads 8
sectors 17
steprate 0
precomp 256
$
badblocktable 2
$
$
0
8
800
$
$