keithe@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) (09/14/87)
In article <2643@tekgvs.TEK.COM> keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) writes: >(Unfortunately the disk controllers only access 1024 of the [Maxtor] >2190's 1224 cylinders, so instead of the almost 160 >megabytes of disk we can only get to 115 megabytes. The WD 1006 WAH >controller, which does address 2048 cylinders, for some reason won't >properly cold boot, so I'm waiting for the new version of the 1006. Correction/retraction: The problem about not cold-booting was in my 286AT Clone which was running the AMI BIOS ROM set. Changing to an AWARD BIOS set "cured" the no-cold-boot problem with the WD-1006-WAH. Now that I've got the -1006- to work in my 286 machine I'll be moving it to my '386, re-formatting the drive (to use 1:1 interleave which it supports) and re-installing the UNIX (assuming I can get the INSTALL script to skip over the drive formatting/partitioning sequence). But not until I get a promised ROM upgrade to make the controller more amenable to UNIX disk access. (I think the advanced track buffering will be disabled, or something like that.) keith (still waiting for a -1006- with floppy controller) ericson