Hard drives and MS DOS 3.1

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From: Ruben D. Fagundo
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 13:50

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I just got a used Rainbow with a hard drive controller and a dead 10 meg
hard drive.  I put an ST225 20 Meg hard drive in it, but the software that
I have for the hard drive installation only formats the drive as a ten Meg
drive.  What's the procedure for formatting this drive as a 20 Meg drive.

I also have a PC with MS DOS 3.1 and I have been reading that this will run
on the rainbow.  So, I formatted a floppy on the PC in the following way:

FORMAT A:/1/s

But when I tried to boot from this floppy the rainbow said it was a non-system
disk.  Is there a particular way that people ported DOS 3.1 to the rainbow that
I do not know about?  Any suggestions?

Ruben

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From: rxf@genrad.com ( Ruben D. Fagundo )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Hard drives and MS DOS 3.1
Summary: How can I format a drive greater than 10 meg
Keywords: Hard Drive DOS 3.1
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Date: 25 Oct 89 13:50:47 GMT
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