Re: Help with disk formatting on Rainbow

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From: Warner Losh
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 04:17

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In article <1992Apr8.142904.13711@stsci.edu> richter@stsci.edu
(Otto-G. Richter) writes: 
>Well, yesterday evening I tried with DOS 2.11 and 3.10b and
>WUTIL 2.0 and DISKPART, to initialize and format the disk.

Try using WUTIL 3.2.  It can be had from solbourne.solbourne.com in
pub/rb/as-is/diskutl/wutil32.zip.  It works much better.  I vaguely
recall that it was smart enought to figure out the disk geometry on
its own when I installed my ST-251, but it has been a while.  In
general, you are OK if you use too few of something, but in bad
trouble if you use too many (but it won't format if you do).  At
worst, you could do a binary search to find the right number if my
memory of WUTIL is foggy.

Warner
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Warner Losh		imp@Solbourne.COM	  MMP to DoD #882

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From: imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: Help with disk formatting on Rainbow
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