CHIASSA@UDEM.BITNET (Alyre CHIASSON) (05/26/89)
I just bought a MegaFile 30 for my 1040ST and decided to try to get PC-DITTO II to recognize the hard drive. Everthing seems to come up fine until I do a DIR command on partion C: which gives me the error message "capacity overflow during division,"(DOS 3.2). I have no idea what this means or how to correct it. I am booting the system from floppy with only the PC-DITTO program in the autofolder and an autotime.prg to read the clock that I have in the cartridge port. I have the config.sys file set up as suggested in the manual and have reproduced it below. device=pc_dhd.sys buffers=16 device=driver.sys /D:0/T:80 device=driver.sys /D:1/T:40 (for my 5.25 drive) When the system comes up it does says 3 partitions which is correct I have my drive divided into 3 of 10 meg each. I also see the message that pc_dhd.sys has been installed. My drive was formatted with the program that came on the disk with my hard drive. From the PC-DITTO manual I understand that I do not have to reformat it under DOS. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong or the source of the problem. Many thanks.
hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) (05/26/89)
In article <ID6433.D890526.T110745.CHIASSA@UDEM>, CHIASSA@UDEM.BITNET (Alyre CHIASSON) writes: > > Everthing seems to > come up fine until I do a DIR command on partion C: which gives me > the error message "capacity overflow during division,"(DOS 3.2). > > Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong or the source of the > problem. Many thanks. The problem is that ms/dos wants a "correct" block 0. The ATARI version has sum wrong/undefined values the kill ms/dos. This is the same old problem of reading tos floppies on ibm pc's. What to do. Ah yes, what to do. What I did was write a program to fix the block 0, and supply what ms/dos wants. This was motiviated because if i used ms/dos format it insisted on setting up the disk with 8 sector clusters, instead of 2, as ATARI demands. If you can lick this problem, use format under ms/dos. If you are really frustrated, cuss the Tramiels, and send me mail, I mail you my fixup program. Howard C. Johnson ATT Bell Labs att!lzaz!hcj hcj@lzaz.att.com