Large hard disks for the 3B2 300/310/400 (Was: Re: Looking for info on 3b2)
Steve Paddock
paddock at mybest.UUCP
Mon Sep 5 00:09:51 AEST 1988
In article <449 at ctisbv.UUCP> pim at ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
>
>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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