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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HELP HELP! Miniscribe 3085
Message-ID: <1700@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 89 16:35:09 GMT
References: <21056@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Penn State University
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In article <21056@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> wlr@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes:
|I've found that this drive has 1170 cylinders and fdisk doesn't seem
|to like it.  So currently I've set the number of cylinders to 1024, which

Disk Manager, from OnTrack systems (?), has a BIOS extender program that makes
the computer recognize drives with >1024 cylinders.  A copy of this program is
often distributed with disks that need it.  You might try asking the people
you bought the drive from if you can get a copy of Disk Manager.

BTW, I just got a bunch of ST251-1's with DM v4.0 .. some nice
more-user-friendlyness than the other versions, esp. w.r.t. bad tracks.  (For
an end user, going through an ugly procedure to enter bad tracks isn't so bad,
because they only have to do it once or twice.  For a computer installer, who
does it several times a day, these additions are greatly appreciated.  Thanks,
Ontrack, wherever you are! :-)

  Bill
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