sft@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (scott.thompson) (11/17/89)
In article <0445.AA0445@noel> greg@noel.CTS.COM (J. Gregory Noel) writes: >Rick Flower (rickf@pnet02.gryphon.com) writes: >>Well, I just borrowed a large Maxtor drive from a friend and was in the >>process of formatting it and before it would finish, it would crash the entire >>system -- not to the GURU level though.. > >I had this same problem with a Maxtor "1224" cylinder disk I got via Newbury >Data. I ended up having to call the factory about it. It turns out that the >last two cylinders are reserved for use by the controller for spare tracks, >control information, and so forth, so that you can only use 1222 cylinders. > First, I also had the same problem, my drive would always stop with 47 cylinders to go; lowering the head count and raising the blocks per track seems to do the trick. Now for another problem. I have my large Maxtor drive connected to a Commodore 2090 controller. I decided to change some partition sizes, so I updated the mountlist and began re-preping each partition; while preping the last partition my amiga GURU'd and rebooted, for another reason. Now the machine hangs at the BindDrivers call in my startup-sequence when the drive is turned on, therefore I cannot Mount any partition to re-prep the drive. How can I get around this problem. Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- Scott Thompson, 45261, (IH 6W-207), AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il. 60566 VOICE: (312)-979-2237 UUCP: ...!att!ihlpa!sft