virgil@plx.UUCP (08/17/87)
I am a bit confused and would appreciate any help understanding the following. I have a fairly new 6300 (1.43 bios) and bought an ST225 with controller for it. This was a generic "ibm" compatible kit and although the more significant chips on the controller have "DTC" stamps, the prom has a Seagate sticker on it. Anyway, I got it working after positioning the "external-indigenous" switch to "external" and using debug to jump to the low level format on prom. Everything appear to be fine until I had filled half the disc and several programs claimed that the disc was full at only 10meg. I ran customer.exe and it claimed it only saw a 10meg drive too. Oh well, so futzaround time again. I removed the prom from the controller (there was no obvious way to disable the chip) and reset the "external-indigenous" switch to "indigenous" and it also booted fine (actually much better than with the controller prom) but now FDISK showed that I had only 305 cylinders allocated for C: instead of the previous 614 even though it also said the the 305 cylinders went from 0 to 613. Huh??? Does anyone have an idea as to what is wrong with this picture? Also, is there something from ATT to do a low level format with the bios routines? I appologize if this has been discussed before and hope some kind person would pass it along. I am pretty lost in the uucp world but if you can get to "sun" I should be reachable via "...!sun!plx!virgil" thanks much virgil champlin -- "I got it! I got it! ... I ain't got it."