lawrence@smcnet.smc.edu (Lawrence Roney, Telecomm Dept) (09/22/90)
We just bought a Micropolis 1558-15 300Mbyte hard disk for our 6386E Unix box. I'm installing it as a second hard disk in the system. The unit came with a 135Mbyte. I set the drive type in the system's CMOS config RAM to 31--304 Mbyte. I then ran the Low Level Format program that comes with the 6386. It finds what looks to be the proper hard disk and proceeds to format the 15 heads and 1221 cylinders. Everything is going fine so far. I then reboot the Unix system off of the existing HDU and run the Unix FDISK program to set up a partition on the new HDU (/dev/rdsk/1s0) FDISK only sees 814 cylinders. Why???? I continued to partition the disk and even ran mkfs and mounted the new file system. Re-booting the system only reported the file system to be 150Mbytes big. I think the problem is in the FDISK or Low Level Formatter programs. Am I close??? Anyone have any ideas???? P.S. The Micropolis disk was bought from Micropolis direct, not from AT&T. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lawrence Roney - Santa Monica College Telecommunications Department N6YFN 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405-1628 Mail UUCP: uunet!ucla-cs!smcnet!lawrence Internet: lawrence@smcnet.smc.edu