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From: henkp@nikhefk.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: RLL controller
Message-ID: <114@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Feb-87 20:46:22 EST
Article-I.D.: nikhefk.114
Posted: Sat Feb  7 20:46:22 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Feb-87 02:03:15 EST
References: <1083@ethos.UUCP> <1373@bnrmtv.UUCP> <2622@iuvax.UUCP> <1435@tekigm2.TEK.COM> <1391@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Reply-To: henkp@nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Peek)
Organization: Nikhef-K, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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In article <1391@bnrmtv.UUCP> perkins@bnrmtv.UUCP (Henry Perkins) writes:
>[Tim was referring to my problem -- not being able to boot from a
> cheap (Disctron) hard disk formatted with an Adaptec 2070B RLL
> controller:]
>

Mostly the problem is (old) fdisk and format will only handle 17 sectors
per track and not the 25 of the 2070.

You must first run "fdisk" and "format c:" without "/s"!!!
Now change byte 24 of trac 0 sector 0 from "11H" in "19H"
 and delete (change to zero) the 2 hidden system file names from
 the root directory.
Run the "sys" program.
Put your files on the disk.

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