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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: PrepHD & 2091
Keywords: Prep
Message-ID: <27535@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Date: 30 Jul 90 17:39:19 GMT
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Reply-To: kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk)
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In article <27534@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>
>Help!!
>
>I ran:
>> prodprep device scsi.device unit 5
>on my 1.5 meg Quantum (device 5). Now HDTools thinks it is a bootable 40
>Meg Quantum & things have just gone downhill from there...

Please excuse. I got things straightened out. Very confusing, but things are
better now.

Apparently HDtoolbox gets its info from the drives themselves while
Drive Definitions uses the saved table. Anyway, I was stuck using HDToolBox,
since it refused to accept that the 105 Meg was anything but a 40 MEg.
Luckily, Drive Definitions allowed me to change the drive type after I had
read it from the drive. Then I managed to get it repartitioned.

When leaving the partitioning activity, it told me that all info in
DH0:  would be destroyed. Well... Dh0: is the 40 Meg & Qdh0: is the 105
Meg, so I aborted. Found no way to assure me that the 40 Meg would be
destroyed, so I ended up unplugged the SCSI cable to the 40 Meg it
before exiting partitioning.

After a few other such incidents, I managed to get QDH0: up and formatted
correctly.

Strange.

Thanks anyway,
Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute (512) 522-2882
Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
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