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- From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
- Subject: Re: Pro/Venix Installation
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.194138.12101@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 19:41:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug29.052756.7383@menudo.uh.edu> cosc16to@menudo.uh.edu (Andy Hakim) writes:
- >> the read fails, VENIX will retry a number of times before giving up. I
- >> think what you're seeing is the failed retries, and, as suggested above,
- >> it's probably due to a head/cylinder difference between your disk and one
- >> of the supported ones.
- >
- >Makes sense. I am using a non-standard drive, a Seagate ST-225,
- >which has dimensions of 655x4. I dont know what the comparable
- >DEC 20megger (RD52?) size is. I once talked to the dec techincian
- >and was told that they used Seagate drives back in those days.
- >
- >I'm not even sure if Venix 1.1 officially supported 20mb drives.
- >
- >thanks,
- >-andy
- ST-225 is RD31 and *is* standard. Make sure that it selects on DS0. You'll
- know you're right because it will light up when selected.
-
- Isn't RD52 the Quantum 540? This is a 30-odd meg disk. The RD53 is a
- Micropolis 1325 and is 64 Megs formatted DEC style. (Often called a 70-
- something Meg disk elsewhere. DEC's penchant for 16 sectors instead of
- 17 causes this sized disk's "penalty" to be noticeable.)
-
- Don't know what Venix expects.
-
- cjl
-