1030787@hydra.maths.unsw.OZ.AU (05/27/91)
I recently bought a Sidecar ( remember them? the IBM XT expansion box for the
A1000) and a microbotics 2Mb expansion for my A500. The sidecar has a
Miniscribe 42mb 3053 hard drive installed... this is my problem!
The sidecar works fine, when I set it up I did a low level format
using diskmaster, a program that comes with the miniscribe drive.
The program formatted the entire 1024 tracks, but when I went to
partition the drive for DOS and AmigaDOS, FDISK told me the drive
only had 611 cylinders! ADISK, which is used to set up amiga partitions
told me the same thing. Now when I run diskmaster, it tells me I only
have a drive with 611 cylinders ,and only 4 heads instead of 5.
When I try to change this it tells me the BIOS used by the controller
does not support non standard drives!
I can use the drive for 20 meg fine, but I would love to use the entire
42mb.
I realise this is sort of an IBM question, but can anyone help me in
partitioning the entire 1024 cylinders.
I can be emailed on:
spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au
I would prefer to be mailed rather than have any info posted, because
I cant always rn
thanks in advance....
Paul Ceccato
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Paul Ceccato 2nd yr BE (comp) University of NSW, Kensington, Aus.
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