386 WGS E Novell COMPSURF prob.
feejw at stat.appstate.edu
feejw at stat.appstate.edu
Fri Jan 4 07:13:05 AEST 1991
does anyone know how to disable the sector translation on a 6386 E Tower 20mhz
machine? The controller is a WD1007a-wah ESDI with a Micropolis 320meg drive.
This is the config shipped from att. The problem I have is that when I try to
COMPSURF the drive under Novell I get a error message immediately that the
drive failed to format. I know the drive has 1221 cyls, 15 heads and 34
sectors/trk; COMPSURF reports the drive as having something like 853 cyls, 15
heads and 60 some sectors/trk. I've had this problem before with ESDI drives
and NOVELL and got around it by disabling the sector translation.
Unfortunately, this wd card is not like the others I have used or have doc for.
The card has a 62-002068-802 rom on it and 3 jumpers; I tried jumpering and
unjumpering the jumpers but didn't have any luck.
Any ideas about what the problem may be or how to disable the translation will
be greatly appreciated; thanks a bunch.
Wayne Fee
Academic Computing Services
Appalachian State U.
email: feejw at stat.appstate.edu
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