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From: zech@leadsv.UUCP (Bill Zech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HELP HELP! Miniscribe 3085
Summary: Disk Manager and Windows/386 don't like each other
Message-ID: <8242@leadsv.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 89 01:24:54 GMT
References: <21056@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1700@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Organization: LMSC-LEADS, Sunnyvale, Ca.
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In article <1700@psuhcx.psu.edu>, wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
> 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.
> 

I bought the same disk drive and originally used DM 4.0.  I soon chucked
the Disk Manager code and settled for 1024 cyls because DM and Windows/386
are apparently not compatible.  My system worked fine all the time except
while running Windows/386 v2.11.  Then I would gets lots of spurious
disk errors, like drive not ready, even errors on non-existent drives.

I then switched to MS-DOS 4.01, made one large partition, and have had
no problems whatever.

As far as speed goes, it seems pretty fast to me.  Are you sure you
formatted for 1:1 interleave?  My ROM disk test in the AMI bios gives
it about 500 KB/S.  Not lightning fast, but right up there.

-Bill