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- From: kcwellsc@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Ken Wellsch)
- Subject: Re: Pro/Venix Installation
- Message-ID: <Bts2CG.MM0@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Aug27.152838.26907@lotus.com> <1992Aug29.052756.7383@menudo.uh.edu> <1992Aug29.194138.12101@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 03:43:27 GMT
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- > An 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.
-
- The only point I would like to make about determining whether drive RDxx
- works okay is this: my experience with Pro's and RD drives is that if
- the drive meets or exceeds the required # hds/cyls etc. it may appear
- to be working fine but you may well not be using more than say the drive
- it thinks it is. Example, if an RD51 is not jumpered correctly, a Pro
- (with Venix) will happily think the drive is an RD50 (5Mb rather than
- 10Mb). So please if you find something works, check how much space you
- *really* have available, it may not be the actual drive's capacity at all.
-