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Started by Marc Grushcow
Tue, 24 Oct 1995 14:16
Configuring large SCSI drives
Author: Marc Grushcow
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 14:16
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 14:16
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I have a Toshiba 1950CT notebook and an external Fujitsu 3GB external hard drive. I connect them with either an Adaptec SlimSCSI or the IBM PCMCIA SCSI controller card. I don't know who or what did the original cyl/track/sector configuration on the drive or the original low level format. I use both OS/2 Warp and DOS 5/Windows 3.1 on my system. If I configure the partitions with Adaptec EZ SCSI, OS/2 can not find the drive or any of the partitions. If I partition under Warp/fdisk I can create partitions which are recognizable to DOS/Windows. Under Warp, I can only create FAT partitions in the first 1GB. Attempting to go higher gives the message "Partition is above 2GB or past 1023 cylinders" The problem is obviously the latter. I would like to be able to have as much of the drive usable to both systems as possible. What do I need to reconfigure the cyl/trk/sector configuration? If I increase sectors/track, I should be able to make more of the disk FATable. What is the limit here? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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