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From: dchou@ncoast.ORG (David Chou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: wierd problems during HD boot
Summary: trouble with Ontrack Disk Manager
Keywords: config.sys
Message-ID: <13771@ncoast.ORG>
Date: 23 Jun 89 02:55:08 GMT
References: <598@aablue.UUCP>
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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I also had trouble with utilities like directory working properly when
I formatted a 3085 with the Ontrack Disk Manager provided by CompuAdd in
my original IBM-AT.  Supposedly the system created a single 49MB disk,
but everything behaved very erratically.  I finally did a traditional
setup (with a type 12) and followed with a low level format, FDISK, and
high level format.  I know that type 12 is wrong for this drive, but my
feeble minded 5 year old AT only knows about 15 drives and as a result
I lose 10MB.  This is a *strange* disk since it has 1170 tracks and DOS
can only handle 1024.  In my case I can only use 855 unless I replace my
BIOS.

Dave Chou      ncoast!dchou@hal.cwru.edu