Xref: utzoo comp.sys.att:10376 comp.unix.sysv386:250
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!rsoft!frank
From: frank@rsoft.bc.ca (Frank I. Reiter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 760Meg on ATT386/20WGS
Keywords: Unix Meg ATT
Message-ID: <91@rsoft.bc.ca>
Date: 11 Sep 90 14:44:31 GMT
References: <1649@uvm-gen.UUCP>
Reply-To: frank@rsoft.UUCP (Frank I. Reiter)
Organization: Reiter Software Inc., British Columbia
Lines: 16

In article <1649@uvm-gen.UUCP> opergb@emily.uvm.edu (Gary Bushey) writes:
>I am trying to install a 760Meg drive on an ATT 386/20 WGS running ATT Unix 
>Sys V/386 3.2.2.  When I try to do a set-up using the disk, it only lists around
>a 300Meg drive.  I tried to build my own definition but the set-up does not
>allow that.  Is there anyway that I can do this?

This is likely the same problem I encountered swapping a 330 meg ESDI drive for
a 660 meg drive the other day.  The higher capacity drive has 53 (?) SPT as
opposed to the 34 or 35 of the smaller drive.  A WD WA2 is not fast enough to
handle that many sectors in one revolution - the BIOS setup insisted there were only 35 SPT.  Changing to an SE2 (or equivalent from another manufacturer)
should solve your problem.  We used an Ultrastore.
-- 
_____________________________________________________________________________
Frank I. Reiter              UUCP:  {uunet,ubc-cs}!van-bc!rsoft!frank
Reiter Software Inc.                frank@rsoft.bc.ca,  a2@mindlink.UUCP
Surrey, British Columbia      BBS:  Mind Link @ (604)576-1214, login as Guest