pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen) (09/01/88)
In article <830@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes: >In article <340@anumb.UUCP>, adh@anumb.UUCP (a.d.hay) writes: >> >> ANY ST412/506 drive will plug 'n play, if you can figure out how to >> format it (yes, even the 190Mb ones ;^>). CDC makes the OEM drives. > >We have heard from a plausible source that the idtools will not >format a drive larger than about 72mb. Word has is that Congruent >Technologies (they sell a 170MB drive) wrote their own idtools >to do this. We have not tried this -- anybody else done it? We use "devtools", the predecessor of "idtools" to format Newbury Data NDR 2190 hard disks. These are 190 MB unformatted, 144 MB formatted (you can only use 1024 of the 1224 cylinders). Works just fine, only /etc/prtconf still displays "72 MB" on boot-up. Has anybody any idea how to fix this? -- --------------------+------------------------------------+--------------------- Pim Zandbergen | CTI Software BV | Phone: +31 70 542302 pim@ctisbv.UUCP | Laan Copes van Cattenburch 70 | Fax: +31 70 512837 ..!mcvax!ctisbv!pim | 2585 GD The Hague, The Netherlands | Telex: 32133 CTI NL
paddock@mybest.UUCP (Steve Paddock) (09/04/88)
In article <449@ctisbv.UUCP> pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen) writes: > >We use "devtools", the predecessor of "idtools" to format >Newbury Data NDR 2190 hard disks. These are 190 MB unformatted, >144 MB formatted (you can only use 1024 of the 1224 cylinders). >Works just fine, only /etc/prtconf still displays "72 MB" on boot-up. >Has anybody any idea how to fix this? Yes. Use a non-standard drive number when you low-level format the disk with idtools and then use edittbl(8) to put an entry for that drive in the /dgn/edt_data. Do make a backup copy first :-). Steve -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Paddock uunet!bigtex!mybest!paddock ut-emx!mybest!paddock {attmail|gbsic5|bscaus}!uhous1!paddock