shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) (06/14/91)
What hazards should I expect in connecting a 1.2 Gb drive to a DOS box with a 1542b controller? Do I need to do any pre-configuring before DOS sees it or do I need to use a special driver? Ken (shiva@well.sf.ca.us) P.S. This will be a Fuji 2266 under MSDOS 5.0.
neese@adaptx1.UUCP (06/16/91)
>/* ---------- "BIG drives under DOS: Any Gotchas?" ---------- */ > >What hazards should I expect in connecting a 1.2 Gb drive to a >DOS box with a 1542b controller? Do I need to do any >pre-configuring before DOS sees it or do I need to use a >special driver? The only gotcha is,....the translation scheme used by the adapter. 64 heads * 32 sectors * 1024 = 1.0GB (2^13). As long as the formatted capacity is less than this, the adapter is happy. If the capacity is over this, the adapter will simply report 1024 cylinders to DOS and DOS will only use 1.0GB of the available space. Roy Neese Adaptec Senior SCSI Applications Engineer UUCP @ neese@adaptex uunet!cs.utexas.edu!utacfd!merch!adaptex!neese