Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!emory!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrlnk!ncrwat!swdev!dgs From: dgs@swdev.Waterloo.NCR.COM (David G. Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: HELP! Mitsubishi HD dead ?!? Summary: Mail bounced - sorry for the post Message-ID: <1119@swdev.Waterloo.NCR.COM> Date: 11 Jan 90 13:00:53 GMT References: Reply-To: dgs@swdev.Waterloo.NCR.COM (David G. Schwartz) Organization: NCR Canada Ltd, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Lines: 32 In article huopio@kannel.lut.fi (Kauto Huopio) writes: >Mu friend bought a BEAR 386 with a Mitsinbishi MR535-U00 drive and >DTC RLL 1:1 controller.. >Now: Are these settings right for the drive? >Cylinders 980 Heads 5 Precomp 0 Landing zone 981 Sect/trk 26 >When low-level formatted with these values the DEBUG formatting prg >finds the disk full of bad tracks.. HELP please.. > >****************** Kauto Huopio (huopio@kannel.lut.fi) ********************** >*US Mail: Kauto Huopio, Punkkerikatu 1 A 10, SF-53850 Lappeenranta, Finland * >*Project: Learn some GNU Emacs first.. :-) * >***************************************************************************** I think I can reply to this - I have a Mitsu MR535U and a DTC 7287 1:1 RLL controller. My BIOS setup (AMI 386 BIOS) is: type 17, cyln 977, heads 5, Wcom 300, Lzone 977, Sec 17, Size 41 MB. The DTC ROMS take care of remapping into RLL format when you boot. The DTC CMOS on-board configuration (using DEBUG and "g=c800:5") adds: "CTRL=00" and "SECTOR/TRK=26" Note there is no size specified in the DTC setup. Under DOS 3.30, this gives me 2 partitions of 32Mb and 29.5Mb. Any more questions, don't hesitate to ask. -- Remember: Net.advice is usually worth what you pay for it. UUCP: {world}!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrwat!dgs VOICE: (519) 884-1710 x581 NCR: NCR Inet 643-1581