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From: paddock@mybest.UUCP (Steve Paddock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Large hard disks for the 3B2 300/310/400 (Was: Re: Looking for info on 3b2)
Message-ID: <2626@mybest.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 88 14:09:51 GMT
References: <36445@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <301@amyerg.UUCP> <340@anumb.UUCP> <830@vsi.UUCP> <449@ctisbv.UUCP>
Reply-To: paddock@mybest.UUCP (Steve Paddock)
Organization: Stephen Paddock, Houston, Texas
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In article <449@ctisbv.UUCP> pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
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>We use "devtools", the predecessor of "idtools" to format
>Newbury Data NDR 2190 hard disks. These are 190 MB unformatted,
>144 MB formatted (you can only use 1024 of the 1224 cylinders).
>Works just fine, only /etc/prtconf still displays "72 MB" on boot-up.
>Has anybody  any idea how to fix this?

Yes.  Use a non-standard drive number when you low-level format the disk
with idtools and then use edittbl(8) to put an entry for that drive in
the /dgn/edt_data.  Do make a backup copy first :-).

Steve


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