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From: kym@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Coherent Installation
Keywords: coherent
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.021552.17397@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 02:15:52 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.231252.4530@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <1991Mar17.111556.20319@orfeo.radig.de>
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In article <1991Mar17.111556.20319@orfeo.radig.de> joachim@orfeo.radig.de (Joachim Riedel) writes:
>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.
[tried to install but didn't work]
>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.

A problem that I came across was a `user-defined disk type' in the cmos; on 
the 386 I was using Coherent couldn't handle it.  Changed to nearest `regular' 
code and it came up -- pity it didn't know about 1/2 the disk tracks!

-kym