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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 386/ix hard disk format trouble
Message-ID: <1990Dec01.181948.14687@virtech.uucp>
Date: 1 Dec 90 18:19:48 GMT
References: <1990Nov26.172045.22926@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Nov26.172045.22926@cl.cam.ac.uk> pwj@ely.cl.cam.ac.uk (Paul Jardetzky) writes:
>I am trying to install Interactive 386/ix on a Sun 386 box and am unable 
>to format a Maxtor 1085 (71meg drive, 17sec/track, 8 heads, 1024 cyl) from the
>boot diskette. It reads the shape of the disk correctly but exactly 
>half way through the format (track 4096) it stops and continues to click
>for up to 5 hours. The drive formats correctly under DOS.

Don't use interactives low level format.  use the HD controller rom software
or a dos package to do the low level format and then tell 386/ix not to
format it.


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