news@herald.usask.ca (USENET News System) (03/13/91)
Does anyone have a software driver or other solution for using the Seagate ST-01 Host Adaptor with a large disk (more than 1024 cylinders) and MS-DOS? The firmware on this board does not map the drive geometry to something that DOS can cope with, and so any cylinders > 1024 are not accessible. I want to connect the ST-01 to a Fujitsu M2613SA SCSI disk (135 MB). The actual disk specs are: 1336 cyl x 6 heads x 34 sectors/trk. I would like DOS to see something like 668 cyl x 12 heads x 34 sec/trk, or anything similar within the DOS limits (< 1024 cyl, < 64 heads). Any help will be appreciated! Thanks, Alvin ___________________________________________________________________________ Alvin Austin Email: austin@skorpio.USask.Ca Department of Computational Science (Mail) Room 1C101 Engineering Building Office: Room 145.1 Arts Building University of Saskatchewan Telephone: (306) 966-4895 Saskatoon, Sask. CANADA S7N 0W0 FAX: (306) 966-8709 ___________________________________________________________________________
austin@skorpio.USask.Ca (Alvin Austin) (03/15/91)
In article <1991Mar13.155159.17844@herald.usask.ca> austin@skorpio.USask.Ca (Alvin Austin) writes: >Does anyone have a software driver or other solution for using >the Seagate ST-01 Host Adaptor with a large disk (more than 1024 >cylinders) and MS-DOS? > >The firmware on this board does not map the drive geometry to >something that DOS can cope with, and so any cylinders > 1024 are >not accessible. My ST-02 formatted a 135Meg drive to 1024 cylinders,5 heads and 53 sectors. I would be very surprised if that was the real geometry (except for the number of heads). Maybe a newer BIOS for the ST-01 would help. Mike Ching