Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!haven!aplcen!osiris!johnj
From: johnj@osiris.UUCP (John Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Wren III/can't format past Cyl 967
Keywords: I *KNOW* this was just posted.
Message-ID: <2901@osiris.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 89 01:41:29 GMT
Reply-To: mjr@welch.jhu.edu
Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital
Lines: 38


	I *KNOW* someone else was just asking this, but since I hadn't
even gotten the Amy yet, I didn't pay attention to it 'till now:

	I have an A2000/2090A and CDC WrenIII drive. I can't seem to
format past cyl 967. When I prepped it I told it I have:
9 heads
1024 Cyl
35 tracks/cyl
precomp = 1024

	I have it partitioned in a couple of partitions (mostly playing
around, at present), with a small 1.5M boot partition. The mountlist
entry for the partition that won't format looks like:

FOO:	Device = hddisk.sys
	Unit = 3
	Flags = 0
	Surfaces = 9
	BlocksPerTrack = 35
	Reserved = 2
	Interleave = 0
	LowCyl = 960; HighCyl = 1023
	Buffers = 30
	BufMemType = 0
#

	Another thing that is confusing me: How do I set up FFS filesystems ?
My manual says nothing about FFS, the 2090A manuals say nothing, etc. I just
bought the Amy, and am having no trouble autobooting, so I must be running
a semi-new version of everything, I would think. (My workbench seems to
say it is V1.2 or something like that.)

Any other advice would be appreciated, as far as how to set up Mr. Disk drive,
etc, etc.

--mjr();
mjr@welch.jhu.edu