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- In message <2e0a9b747%ian@advunit.demon.co.uk>
- Ian Hinder <ian@advunit.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- > [snip]
- > I have initialised the drive to 3200 cylinders with HForm. I had to
- > specify the 'initialise' option rather than the 'format' option
- > because if I used the 'format' option it says 'format error on track
- > n' for n = 0 to infinity (until I abort). I initially formatted to
- > the complete number of cylinders as I didn't realise you needed
- > to use less. This worked, but it hung at the end after verifying.
-
- You are using the latest version of HForm? There's a 'beta' version
- somewhere on ftp.acorn.co.uk that you should be using, as the one
- that comes with 3.7 can't handle discs over about 2Gig-ish, AFAICR.
-
- > Has anyone else had any problems like these? I am tearing my hair out
- > because I can't think of anything else to try.
-
- I had all sorts of fun with !PartMan :-)
- Russell managed to sort them all out, though - the version I have on
- my harddisc is 1.05, which worked perfectly partitioning my 850Meg
- drive.
-
- Joseph
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- Joseph Heenan, Coventry, UK
- mailto:esuvf@csv.warwick.ac.uk
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