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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Problems...Repost
Message-ID: <5101@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 9 May 89 14:11:49 GMT
References: <348@hal.UUCP> <5098@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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In article <5098@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) writes:
>In article <348@hal.UUCP> msb@hal.UUCP (Monty S. Baveja) writes:
><P.S. : We used ONTRAK software to partition the drive.  The controller number
><       is ACB-2372B
>
>DON'T USE ANYTHING BUT DEBUG, FDISK and FORMAT to set up your drive.  You
>just plain don't need the DiskManager from Ontrack Systems.  Just read the
>little instruction sheet that came with the 2372B and you're on your way...

I must add to Keith's remark, that you need to use DOS version >= 3.3, which
contains the partitioning logic.  The 2372B controller even handles drives with
more than 1024 cylinders, so the combination of 2372B (not "A", btw) and DOS
3.3 will handle drives of any size without DiskManager or  other disk
partitioning programs (and I used to be a happy user of Vfeature Deluxe).

Tom Almy
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