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From: joachim@orfeo.radig.de (Joachim Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Coherent Installation
Keywords: coherent
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.175734.3940@orfeo.radig.de>
Date: 20 Mar 91 17:57:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: orfeo.1991Mar20.175734.3940
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lark@greylock.tivoli.com (Lar Kaufman) writes:

>MWC kindly offered me a free upgrade to Coherent 3.1, which was supposed to 
>be able to deal with Disk Manager formats and partitions.  Before I received 
>my new Coherent 3.1, my HD controller unmistakably failed.  Probably was bad 
>all along.  

>I got a new WD 1:1 disk controller and formatted using Disk Manager in manual 
>mode - just did the low-level formats with DM - and partitioned the disks 
>with FDISK.  Did high-level formats with DOS 3.3 FORMAT program.  Installed 
>Coherent 3.1 successfully, except I couldn't see the cursor.  This led to a 

>MWC said that the lost cursor was probably a problem with the DFI VGA card, so 
>I got a new super-VGA card for my primary machine and swapped its old VGA 

It's the same problem you do have with ATI EGA-WONDER, the cursor blinks
somewhere but never there where you want to write.

>Coherent's bad-track mapping isn't doing the task on my hard disks.  Or, 
>just possibly, the floppy control portion of my new disk controller is 

I was crazy enough to buy two sets of COherent, one 5 1/4 and one 3 1/2
and never had problems with diskette read errors.
The only problem I ever had with Coherent (except "100 years" ago with Version
2.3.43) was that I was unable to create a partition larger than 48 MB on
my RODIME 5130, but only /dev/at0b. So I created the large partition on
/dev/at0c.


Hope you all will get the working hardware

Joachim

(joachim@jrix.radig.de)