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- From: mpa@iig.com.au (Mark P Allen)
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- Subject: Re: HDs > 2gig HELP!
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 07:35:28 GMT
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- On 26-Mar-96 19:35:09, David Evans wrote:
-
- DE> Howdy.. I know I have seen the answer (but can't find it!). What do I
- DE> need to format drives greater then 2 gig in size? I know I have to limit
- DE> it to 2gig in size but how to I setup partition sizes etc??
-
- Here is the mountlist I created with RDPrep after I had set up the values
- and prepped the drive. I used a mountlist posted by Joanne Dow as a
- template, though it appeared to me the RDB figures she posted were only
- suitable for a 2GB drive. Anyway, the following works perfectly for 2 x
- 2GB (well, 2GB and 1.999GB or 2048MB and 2047MB, depending on who is
- measuring the partition sizes) partitions on a Quantum XP34300S ATLAS
- (4.3GB) drive:
-
- (Obviously, you should change Device, Unit, DOSType, MaxTransfer, Mask,
- HiID and HiDrive values according to your system)
-
- /* RigidDiskBlock. */
- QUANTUM XP34300 581H: disk = warpdrive.device
- Unit = 3
- BytesperBlock = 512
- Cylinders = 4096
- Heads = 32
- BlocksPerTrack = 64
- CylinderBlocks = 2048
- RDBlow = 5 ; RDBhi = 2047
- MinCyl = 1 ; MaxCyl = 4095
- Interleave = 1
- HiLun = TRUE
- HiID = TRUE
- HiDrive = TRUE
- Reselect = FALSE
- #
- /* Partition. */
- DV0: device = warpdrive.device
- Unit = 3
- Flags = 0x0
- Surfaces = 1
- BlockSize = 512
- BlocksPerTrack = 2048
- Reserved = 2
- Interleave = 0
- LowCyl = 1 ; HighCyl = 2048
- PreAlloc = 0
- Buffers = 30
- BufMemType = 1
- DOSType = 0x444f5303
- MaxTransfer = 2147483647
- Mask = 0xffffffff
- Mount = 1
- /*! Bootable = 0 */
- BootPri = -128
- #
- /* Partition. */
- DV1: device = warpdrive.device
- Unit = 3
- Flags = 0x0
- Surfaces = 1
- BlockSize = 512
- BlocksPerTrack = 2048
- Reserved = 2
- Interleave = 0
- LowCyl = 2049 ; HighCyl = 4095
- PreAlloc = 0
- Buffers = 30
- BufMemType = 1
- DOSType = 0x444f5303
- MaxTransfer = 2147483647
- Mask = 0xffffffff
- Mount = 1
- /*! Bootable = 0 */
- BootPri = -128
- #
-
- Hope that helps...
-
- (I would appreciate any comments from the experts if they see anything
- apparently erroneous in the above)
-
- Regards,
-
- Mark
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