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- From: andys@picard.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Andy Say)
- Subject: SCSI & RLL drives combined... (continued)
- Organization: Bellcore
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 20:03:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.200338.13826@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Sender: andys@picard (Andy Say)
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- Okay I posted to this group about a month ago about getting my SCSI and newly
- purchased RLL drive working together in my machine. I did get help and seem
- to now have them working together. My RLL drive is the primary drive and I
- have the whole thing dedicated to Linux, the SCSI drive is my secondary drive
- handing on an UltraStor 24F SCSI controller. I am now experiencing some
- quirks with the system and also need some other information.
- First after getting the two drives working together I found that my RLL
- drive would boot Linux when the power was turned on since that was already
- installed by the person I bought the drive from. To be able to get into
- DOS I have to boot from a floppy. The first problem was that when I did
- boot from floppy DOS did not recognize all four partitions of the SCSI drive
- (it is a 340M Maxtor with the drive partioned as C, D, E, and F). I fiddled
- with the setup of my UltraStor and sort of went against the manual, according
- to the manual if the board is put into ISA mode (which mine is secondary ISA)
- you are suppose to set the other setting (don't remember which since I am at
- work) to 16HD, 1 DRV (there is another number I am forgetting here), but when
- I put in this setting the whole drive is not recognized. I then restored it
- to the same setting I had without the RLL which was 64HD, 1 DRV... This seems
- to have brought back my whole drive visible to DOS booting from floppy, but
- now Windows is running very unstable. If I attempted to launch a second DOS
- session it crashes. I am thinking maybe I need to load the device driver
- supplied with the card to support virtual DMA for Windows, although I never
- had this installed before, maybe now I am in ISA mode I do need it, anyone
- know for sure?
- Secondly to make this long winded story just a little bit longer, I would
- like to get my system so that I can selectively boot Linux or DOS from the
- hard drive so that I don't have to use floppies. I was going to use LILO
- with Linux but the whole reason I bought the RLL drive is because Linux does
- not recognize my UltraStor card so therefor I am assuming LILO will do me no
- good since the OS it is running from does not recognize the drive. Is this
- correct? If so is there some program that I can run under DOS that will create
- a boot sector for both Linux and DOS?
- Any help would be appreciated.
-
- Andy
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- * Andy Say * Place witty comment here. *
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