Bigger HD for Rainbow 100B

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1 total messages Started by Tom F Karlsson Thu, 05 Nov 1992 15:11

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Author: Tom F Karlsson
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 15:11

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I'm having some trouble installing a NEC D3142 harddisk on my Rainbow.
It has 615 cylinders and 8 heads.

It's possible to install it as a 20Mb HD with 615 cyl, 8 heads (like
RD31 or whatever it's called). But when I try to install it as a 40Mb HD
(thats what it is, really), I can't boot from any of the partitions and
two of the partitions can't hold any files.

I think it has something to do with the pre-boot and sec-boot loaders on
the HD. I've heard that there's a program fixing this, DSKPREP (or something).

I use MS-DOS 2.05, 2.11 and CP/M-86/80.

Is there anyone who could help me with this ?
Maybe someone knows where to get the DSKPREP program or have some ideas
about how to overcome this problem.

/Tom
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|  Tom Karlsson                                         |
|  student of computer science @ Uppsala University     |
|  email:   tomk@meryl.csd.uu.se                        |
|                                                       |
|  " - At least it's something, said the moskito and    |
|      pissed in the sea..."                            |

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