Divide Overflow with fdisk on xt

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From: Doug Snow
Date: Thu, 29 May 1986 12:41

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  I've been trying to format a ten meg tandon hard drive on a fully loaded
XT. After much messing around with the drive switches ( the xt has 2 floppies, 
I was getting a floppy boot failure when I followed the manufacturers
switch setting recommendations ) I finally managed to do a low level 
format ( c800:800 ). However, fdisk bombs after choosing the [1]
option ( 1 partition ) with a "divide overflow". Arghh, I have no idea
why this might be happening.. we had shorted the 34 conductor ribbon,
but this has been fixed and the low level format ran without a hitch. Has anyone
had similar problems. Can anyone give me some potential leads?
Any suggestions would be gratefully accepted.

                              dsnow@watarts.UUCP

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From: dsnow@watarts.UUCP (Doug Snow)
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Subject: Divide Overflow with fdisk on xt
Message-ID: <8723@watarts.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-May-86 08:41:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: watarts.8723
Posted: Thu May 29 08:41:50 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 30-May-86 07:55:17 EDT
Reply-To: dsnow@watarts.UUCP (Doug Snow)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: Tandon Hard Drive, Fdisk, divide overflow