han@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (14508000) (01/11/91)
I bought a 210M quantum hd drive fro Allience Peripheral Systems with A/UX in mind. When it was dilivered to me, I found that it is not compatible with Apple's HD SC setup program, and their format/partitioning program is not capable of A/UX compatible partition. I called their technical support, they told me I have to buy a partitioning program such as Silverlining or similar to do that, and they don't support A/UX, also they dont recommand A/UX on their disk. Now I am confused. Do I have to return my disk, and buy from others with A/UX partioner? Or I can do myself with some partitioning program? Does anybody have a similar experience? Then pls help me. Any recommandation or comment welcome! Jong-Hoon Oh jhoh@joseph.ucsc.edu
rudd@calvin.stanford.edu (Kevin Rudd) (01/11/91)
I used Silverlining by LaCie (now a subsidiary of Quantum) to format my Q210 from APS (new low-level format followed by partitioning). CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION There exists a known bug (by LaCie -- but "our programmer is overworked and it is not a big problem if you do backups before using our program") where Silverlining will trash utterly the partition map when moving and resizing volumes (which is a documented "feature" in the manual). Workaround: Don't move or resize volumes after partitioning!!!! UNCAUTION UNCAUTION UNCAUTION -- Kevin
han@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (14508000) (01/15/91)
I bought a 210 M Quantum Disk from Allied Peripheral Systems. As I bought it for A/UX 2.0, I was dissapointed I coudn't format it for A/UX with their software. I posted this problem to net, I received many replies. Thanks everybody. I get many references of succsess with Silverlining. But someone metioned a problem in partioning. Jon Hailton and others sugested patches to Apple HD setup. Bob Prohaka kindly let me know Frederick Brown's patch to the Apple HD setup. It was workig for 105M according to Bob. It was 12 QUANTUM Q250 -> 01 QUANTUM Q250 that I tried with Apple HD setup v.2.0. It has recognized the drive, but it failed to initialize the drive. It formats for some time, then give an error message that It can't mount the drive. Anothor problem is that this patch is not possible for v.2.03 which is recent version. I need v2.01 or later for A/ux 2.0. When I look into the v2.03 there was 01 QUAMTUM Q250 was aleady there. Jon Hamilton suggested to changed the name of drive. So I tried several patches myself including his suggestion. First I found new drive name QUANTUM P80S, so changed it to quantum Q210S. It does recognized the drive, but when I tried initialization, it gives a messsage that it can't get required information from the drive. Next I found there are serial number section says 980-80-94xx. I changed it to 921-12-9004 (which is with 210M drive). Same results. After I compare the P40S and P80s part of the code, I found a number which seems to be corresponds to drive size. Hexavalue seems to be 80x8 M(bit). I changed it to 210x8 M. Same results. Does anybody was succssesful in this? Any comment will be greatly appreciated. Jong-Hoon OH jhoh@joseph.ucsc.edu