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Started by John Smith
Sun, 10 Mar 1996 23:46
Hard disc shape?
Author: John Smith
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 23:46
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 23:46
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Hi,
I've recently added an additional 1Gb scsi hard disc to my RiscPC, but as I
already have four scsi "drives" on my iconbar, I have a problem: I can't access
all of it!
Problem: RISC OS 3.5 will only allow 512Mb per "drive" partition
Problem: I cannot use the RISC OS 3.6 FileCore on my OAK SCSI card
(unless you know different)
Poss. Solution: Get the new FileCore working.
Poss. Solution: Partition the drive as 2 x 512Mb drives, and only use one of
them :-(
Poss. Solution: As above, but unconfigure my SyQuest drive so I can access the
full Gig :-(
Lateral Solution: Forget about the drive under RISC OS, and program it as
a dedicated SCSI drive for the PC card.
NEW PROBLEM: !PCconfig wants to know the number of heads and the number of
sectors on my drive. How do I discover this? Does anyone
happen to know the shape of my drive? My SCSIform program reports
it as: an "IBM DPES-31080" drive with 0x205200 blocks of 512
bytes (1034.25 Mbytes).
I'd be very grateful if anyone [particularly on the non-acorn groups] can
answer this.
Followups set to comp.sys.acorn.extra-cpu.
Thanks,
--
John. .(-''''-).
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John Smith john@roundel.demon.co.uk
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'(-....-)'
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Re: Hard disc shape?
Author: Mike
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:16
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:16
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John Smith wrote: [cut] > NEW PROBLEM: !PCconfig wants to know the number of heads and the number of > sectors on my drive. How do I discover this? Does anyone > happen to know the shape of my drive? My SCSIform program reports > it as: an "IBM DPES-31080" drive with 0x205200 blocks of 512 > bytes (1034.25 Mbytes). when I added my scsi disk, i only needed tell it the scsi id, it seemed to work the rest out for itself. not very helpfull, Mike
Re: Hard disc shape?
Author: Dirk Bollema
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:19
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:19
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In message <3145B176.2BB3@kernel.enet.dec.com> Mike wrote: > John Smith wrote: > [cut] > > NEW PROBLEM: !PCconfig wants to know the number of heads and the number of > > sectors on my drive. How do I discover this? Does anyone > > happen to know the shape of my drive? My SCSIform program reports > > it as: an "IBM DPES-31080" drive with 0x205200 blocks of 512 > > bytes (1034.25 Mbytes). > > when I added my scsi disk, i only needed tell it the scsi id, it seemed to > work the rest out for itself. > In the part of Disc Setup fill in the SCSI ID (0), Heads 0 and Sectors also 0. With a utility called Norton utilities or Checkit pro it's possible to check what kind of HD you have. Afterwards change the fields Heads and Sectors, although it's not necessary to fill in the actual values. I am using my HD always with Heads 0 and Sectors 0 without any problems. If you really want to know the heads and sectors, check your HD. Open it and count the heads and sectors or read the information on the label on the HD (if available). If you have access to a BBS you could also try to find your info there or call IBM. -- Dirk. ====================================================================== ====/ _ _ ====/ Tilburg, Netherland /= ===/ |_)irk |_) ===/ Email: dbollema@dds.nl /== ==/ |_)ollema ==/ dbollema@worldaccess.nl /=== =/ =/ dbo@delta.fuji-ef.nl /==== ====================================================================== ... Captain, the UARTs won't take this Speed!
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