🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Aug12.1481.4704@dosgate> "robert fielder" <robert.fielder@canrem.com> writes:
>Larry A. Shurr (shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com) said:
>LA>I did find that OS/2 didn't like something about the UltraStore's
>LA>track mapping for drives with > 1024 tracks, but that's a different
>LA>issue.
>I have a Fujitsu 670 Mb drive with well over 1024 tracks, and an
>Ultrastor 12c controller.
>No problems so far, but your message leaves me concerned:
>What problems did you notice?

Robert,

It's entirely likely that I just didn't set the options right on the board.

I have a fairly old Newbury Data 157 MB drive with 1224 tracks.  What
happened was nothing.  I would boot the installation disk, the OS/2
logo screen would appear, then it would display "Loading, please wait..."
and just sit there thrashing the boot floppy (slowly) for awhile.  Then
that would go silent and then... still nothing.  If you let it sit long
enough, the screen would blank and then "Loading, please wait..." would
appear near the top of the screen.  Again, the boot floppy would thrash
for awhile followed by... nothing.

The setup options screen for the UltraStor did not match the illustration
in my machine's manual.  I should have called Gateway and bitched, but I
simply tried the options (there weren't very many), but never found a
combination that worked... with OS/2, that is... several combinations
worked fine with MSDOS.  Of course, there was one combination that worked:
no mapping, but then you could only use the first 1024 tracks... I got
mad and decided that I was going to put the UltraStor back in my wife's
machine at my earliest convenience (her 80 MB drive will be fine with
the UltraStor).

My trusty old WD1007A-WA2 works with the drive and OS/2 likes it just
fine.  Its formatter insists on stealing one sector per track for use as 
a spare and that costs some space.  Makes the disk look defect free, though.

Larry
-- 
Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com or att!cbnmva!las) speaking only for myself.
EOR (end-of-ramble)