tmiller@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU (09/27/90)
Hello, I'm having a problem with installing a ST251-1 (40mb) disk drive on my PRO running POS 3.2 . I wonder if anyone else has ever done this. While it works fine as a second drive if formated from the toolkit if I try and install POS on it it returns a FBI (format/bad block/initialization) error during the install. I theorize that there is an error block which is bad in the boot sector and that the PRO can't re-vector the boot sector but there is a specific error for that condition and further investigation of the error dump status tells me that there was an 'unrecoverable error' rather than a 'bad block in boot sector'. Any ideas? Todd M. Miller Chemistry Dept. Brandeis University tmiller@binah.cc.brandeis.edu tmiller@brandeis.bitnet
chaim@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Chaim Dworkin) (09/29/90)
In article <0093D4F7.E4C82900@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> tmiller@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU writes: >Hello, > I'm having a problem with installing a ST251-1 (40mb) disk drive on >my PRO running POS 3.2 . I wonder if anyone else has ever done this. >While it works fine as a second drive if formated from the toolkit if >I try and install POS on it it returns a FBI (format/bad block/initialization) >error during the install. I theorize that there is an error block which >is bad in the boot sector and that the PRO can't re-vector the boot sector >but there is a specific error for that condition and further investigation >of the error dump status tells me that there was an 'unrecoverable error' >rather than a 'bad block in boot sector'. > Any ideas? > Are you using the proper controller card for that drive? When I upgraded from a 5 Mb drive to a 20 Mb drive on my Pro I had to get a new controller card because I was told that all the controller cards were limited as to what size hard drives they could handle. Another question that comes to mind is if you have lots of time you could install the drive into an MSDOS computer temporarily. There are tons of MSDOS HD diagnostic programs around which could tell the status of the boot sector on your ST251. -- Chaim Dworkin (chaim@eniac.seas.upenn.edu)
steve@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Steve Mitchell) (09/29/90)
For those of us getting into the Pro350 game late, could those who have the information post a list of the option boards available for the Pro350 and what they are for? This is the first I've heard that there were multiple hard disk controller boards for this system. Thanks! -- - Steve Mitchell steve@cps.altadena.ca.us grian!steve@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov ames!elroy!grian!steve "God is licht, an in him there is nae mirkness ava." -- 1 John 1:5