jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM (Gerald Hawkins) (01/07/89)
I've been trying to format an ancient CMI 5616 for use in my AT clone. Unfortunately, the 5616 seems to have 256 cylinders, 6 heads (16 MB total) and therefore does not match any of the drive type choices offered by BIOS or by IBM diagnostics. Trying to specify a larger drive type (and letting the non-existent cylinders be considered defective) fails; the diagnostic requires 20 MB of usable area to proceed with a 21MB drive type. I can't use it as 10 MB because the standard 10 MB drive has 306 cylinders--again the diag refuses to proceed due to excessive defects. Is there any way to use this old clunker productively? Rainy Days and Automatic Weapons Fire Alway Get Me Down. These opinions are mine. Jerry. (jerry@starfish.convergent.COM) -----
walt@sixwbn.UUCP (Walt Novinger) (01/09/89)
in article <909@starfish.Convergent.COM>, jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM (Gerald Hawkins) says: > > I've been trying to format an ancient CMI 5616 for use in my AT clone. > > Unfortunately, the 5616 seems to have 256 cylinders, 6 heads (16 MB > total) and therefore does not match any of the drive type choices offered > by BIOS or by IBM diagnostics. > Is there any way to use this old clunker productively? > Jerry. (jerry@starfish.convergent.COM) > ----- You might try a copy of SpeedStor software. This allows you to partition drives larger than 32MB (not your problem, I know), as well as formatting drives by specifying the number of heads and cylinders. SpeedStor is available from most software dealers (I got mine at Egghead) for about $50-60. Works great! Good Luck! =============================================================================== Walt Novinger | ...!sun!plx!walt | Plexus Computers, Inc. | ...!sun!plx!sixwbn!walt | Joke 'em if they can't 3833 N. First St. |------------------------------| take a f**k! San Jose, CA 95134 | Disclaimer: You mean my | 408-943-2406 (w) | boss might read this? | Robin Williams 415-964-9377 (h) | Nah - he forgot his password!| ==============================================================================
seg@smsdpg.uu.net (Scott Garfinkle) (01/10/89)
From article <125@sixwbn.UUCP>, by walt@sixwbn.UUCP (Walt Novinger): > in article <909@starfish.Convergent.COM>, jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM (Gerald Hawkins) says: >> >> I've been trying to format an ancient CMI 5616 for use in my AT clone. >> ... >> Is there any way to use this old clunker productively? > You might try a copy of SpeedStor software.... If you can wait until it gets posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc, you can use my pdisk program, too (cost == free). Please don't write and ask me to mail it sooner, though. :-( Scott E. Garfinkle SMS Data Products Group, Inc. uunet!smsdpg!seg