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From: joachim@orfeo.radig.de (Joachim Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Coherent Installation
Keywords: coherent
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.111556.20319@orfeo.radig.de>
Date: 17 Mar 91 11:15:56 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.231252.4530@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Organization: Peter Radig EDV-Beratung, Frankfurt, West Germany
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rose@galtee.cs.wisc.edu (Scott M. Rose) writes:

>Ok; so I've bought a copy of Coherent.  Arrives in the mail the other 
>day, and I'm all excited about installing it.
> 
>Crack out an old hard drive to run it under; (ST4038), and discard said 
>drive after multiple failures.
> 
>Install a spare ST251 drive, verify that it's working properly under DOS, 
>do an entire disk scan for defects, etc.
> 
>Attempt to install Coherent; create a coherent partition spanning the
>entire drive, and ask to save said partition to disk.  After which point, 

I tried a lot of different controllers and hard disks but never had that
problems. The only problem I had was that Coherent seems to be unable to
use a low level formatted hard disks without using DOS-FDISK before.
If you used a low level formatted disk without fdisk, try it with fdisk.
If you used fdisk then I have no answer for your problem, maybe you
should try another controller.

Joachim

(joachim@jrix.radig.de)