jcmiller@hydra.unm.edu (Jeff Miller) (07/05/90)
I am attempting to install AT&T UNIX System V/386 release 3.2 on a MAXTOR 2190 159 mg hard drive. I am using Cache Computer's 386-25 with AMI bios. I tried installing UNIX with a 120 mg partition and DOS 4.01 with a 40mg partition. The MAXTOR 2190 has 1224 cyl, 15h, 17sec. I used Disk manager 4.02 to set up the partitions as follows: unix: 0 to 899 cyl, dos 900 to 1023, and dos 1024 to 1223 cyl. When UNIX attempted to install it read the partition as follows: 0 to 899 unix 900 to 1023 dos 0 to 189 other When UNIX installed it simply over wrote my second DOS partion after 1024 cyl. I attempted to change the partiton under UNIX with no change. The only way I could install UNIX and DOS partitions was to stay under 1024 cyl. Has anyone been able to install a drive with greater then 1024 cyl? If so how? Thanks ahead of time for any help! Jeff.
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (07/05/90)
In article <1990Jul4.200619.22681@ariel.unm.edu> jcmiller@hydra.unm.edu (Jeff Miller) writes: >the partitions as follows: unix: 0 to 899 cyl, dos 900 to 1023, and >dos 1024 to 1223 cyl. When installing UNIX on a disk with more than 1024 cyls, make sure that unix is in the last partition. For your disk you should use: dos 0 to 322 unix 323 to 1223 Or if you really wanted 2 dos partitions, dos 0 to 123 dos 124 to 322 unix 323 to 1223 -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc., uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (07/07/90)
In article <1990Jul05.001108.8645@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes: | In article <1990Jul4.200619.22681@ariel.unm.edu> jcmiller@hydra.unm.edu (Jeff Miller) writes: | >the partitions as follows: unix: 0 to 899 cyl, dos 900 to 1023, and | >dos 1024 to 1223 cyl. | | When installing UNIX on a disk with more than 1024 cyls, make sure that | unix is in the last partition. For your disk you should use: | | dos 0 to 322 | unix 323 to 1223 Close. The actual problem is that all DOS partitions must be in the first 1024 cylinders to work right. You might get by the problem with something like Speedstor, but since 3.3 and later will do multiply partitions I would stick with just DOS. unix doesn't have to be last, but DOS has to be low. I have seen some versions of UNIX which don't do >1024 cylinders right. Since this came from the factory installed, I assume that version *can't* do it right, but SCO UNIX works fine and we didn't chase it too far. We tried what they said on the hotline, called and tried the other stuff they said, then went to SCO and got some work done. V.4 works okay, too. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me