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From: drz@csri.toronto.edu (Jerry Zarycky)
Subject: getting a SCSI drive to work!
Message-ID: <8812200701.AA15577@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 88 02:01:38 EST

Help!
I'm trying to get a SCSI controller to work with my newly purchased SCSI drive.

Background:
	I have an A2000 with 1 meg of memory and 1.2 ROMS.
I have purchased the 2090A controller card, and as instructed have removed the
autoboot EPROMS in order to make it work with the 2090A and 1.2.
To test out the system, I borrowed an old Rodime 10 Meg ST-506 drive from work
and formatted it with a boot (OFS) partition and a FFS partition.
It worked beautifully.

Now that my appetite was whetted, I purchased a MiniScribe 8051S SCSI drive
and tried to install it.   I went through the Prep program and was pleased
to find that it was on the list of supported drives.
However, the Prep command says that the drive has 965 cylinders (and 4 heads)
while my documentation says it has 745 cylinders (and 4 heads).
Worse yet, my docs don't tell me how many blocks/track.

The upshot is that I can prep the SCSI drive, format a small OFS partition,
but trying to format the second FFS partition fails immediately after
it prints the first message (e.g.)
Formatting cylinder 31, 750 to go.

Help!
Can some kind soul tell me what is going on, or better yet, send me
a MountList with all the appropriate goodies in it, including
BlocksPerTrack?

I've just spent 6 straight hours working with on it a friend of mine who will
have the same setup (when we are done) and he is waiting anxiously as well.
Thanks for any and all replies.


Jerry Zarycky

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