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Article #4132Re: Help with HD for ST
From: tmp Paul Moreau usenet acct
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1989 12:49
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1989 12:49
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Hi,
I just put a MAXTOR EXT-4380 380 megabyte ESDI drive with an
Emulex MD21/S2 controller on my system. The previous drive
was a WREN 85 meg SASI using a Xebec 1410A controller. After
much trouble trying to get the drive to autoboot (using SUPRA
V2.6 ? forrmatter and driver) I finally started remembered
an artical posted (years?) ago about removing the reset line going
to the controller. That did it! I guess that the Atari BIOS
tries just 1 read to determind if there's a drive out there or
not, and acording to the SCSI spec, a drive will give a 'Check
Status' condition upon the first read/write attempt after the reset
has been asserted. Well so much for that, the reason I'm posting
this is that I also put TOS 1.4 into my system (well worth it!).
Well the TOS 1.0 would only allow 16 meg partions and I understand
that TOS 1.4 will allow 32 megs. Using the old formatter only lets
me use ~160 megs of the drive. Is there any (PD ?) utilities out
there that will let me re-initialize me drive to let me use 32 meg
partitions ??
Well THANX in advance.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!peregrine!ccicpg!paulm From: paulm@ccicpg.UUCP (tmp Paul Moreau usenet acct) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Help with HD for ST Summary: TOS 1.4 and 32 meg partitions Message-ID: <39993@ccicpg.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 89 12:49:44 GMT References: <2444@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: ICL North America (Business Systems), Irvine, CA. Lines: 32