WF24741%UAFSYSB.BITNET@umrvmb.umr.edu (Bill Farmer) (03/14/89)
I've been trying to set up a second Janus hard disk on my Amiga. I have a Miniscribe 3675 (64 meg) and ST238 (32 meg). Both are on a WD1002A-27X with the jumpers W1 & W2 off. The Miniscribe works fine but is partitioned using the Disk Manager partitioning software with a 10 meg DOS, 20 & 30 meg Amiga drives. I can set up the second drive but when I format it on the Amiga side it thinks it's a 6 head drive like the Miniscribe rather than the 4 head that it is. Both drives are dynamically formatted and the second drive will format as a DOS drive. Both FDISK and ADISK verify that the second drive is configured with 4 heads and that all of the partitions exist. It even shows the same using the DiskManager software. So, does anybody know if what I'm trying to do can be done? Is Adisk the cause of my problems? Do I need a different version of DOS to make this work properly? I seem to remember CATS saying that you can set up 2 hard disks and a max- imum of 8 partitions. Perhaps the different drive sizes and configuration are too much for Janus 1.0 and I need the newest version (I want it anyway). Thanks for any help. Bill Farmer University of Arkansas