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From: bob@wyse.wyse.com (Bob McGowen Wyse Technology Training)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Trouble installing 2nd hard disk
Keywords: XENIX, CDC WREN V, ESDI
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Date: 6 Sep 89 19:46:39 GMT
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In article <13458@well.UUCP> whofan@well.UUCP (Brian Lawrence Dear) writes:
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>We just installed a CDC WREN V ESDI hard disk in our AST Premium/386
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>But of course, XENIX won't accept this new drive.
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>When we run /etc/mkdev hd, we get the following message:
---deleted error message---
>Anyone know what's wrong?  When we set up the new 2nd drive as a DOS drive,
---more deleted on dparam and drive under DOS---
>to the next step of mkdev.  Well, we're not sure if the WREN V drive is
>considered by XENIX to be "non-standard."  Anyone know?

non-standard is with respect to DOS, not XENIX.  So, is this drive not
in the BIOS (or whatever) under DOS?  dparam reads the DOS definitions
if it can.
---and more gone---
>Any suggestions/solutions would be welcome and appreciated!  We'd sure
>like to have this drive working before next week!

Determine the values for the disk that the dparam command needs and
enter them at the start of the installation.  This "should" work. :-)

I'd be interested in knowing the results, if you would e-mail me.
thanks

Bob McGowan  (standard disclaimer, these are my own ...)
Customer Education, Wyse Technology, San Jose, CA
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