Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!mechjgh
From: mechjgh@tness7.UUCP (Greg Hackney )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Microport System V/386 install woes
Message-ID: <2066@tness7.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 20:27:39 GMT
References: <1984@sugar.UUCP> <26531@clyde.ATT.COM> <489@micropen>
Reply-To: mechjgh@tness7.UUCP (Greg Hackney (214+464-2771))
Organization: Southwestern Bell, Network Engineering, Dallas
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>In article <26531@clyde.ATT.COM>, wtr@moss.ATT.COM writes:
>> If you are going with the the seagate drive, try using the seagate
>> DISKMANAGER software
 
> NOT TAKE THIS ADVICE!!!!!!
> On SV/386, the AT vtoc virtual disk mapping scheme is used for
> greater SV compatibility.
> I don't trust DOS bad sector mapping for S&%#.
> The bad sector mappings are very different and incompatible.
> Pedestrian advice is dangerous to your system's health.
>David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc.
>...!{ames|harvard|rutgers|topaz|...}!rochester!ur-valhalla!micropen!dave

On Microport 386, are you saying to not use the Seagate Disk Manager for
surface analysis, for low level format, or all of the above? And could
you clarify as to why (in novice terms). Thanks.