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- From: ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento)
- Subject: Re: maxtor disk problems on decstation 5000 - HELP!!
- In-Reply-To: snyder@voodoo.utcc.utk.edu's message of Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:32:50 GM
- Message-ID: <AJC.92Aug25141719@thendara.pa.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Aug25.203250.11167@utkux1.utk.edu>
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- Date: 25 Aug 92 14:17:19
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- In article <1992Aug25.203250.11167@utkux1.utk.edu> snyder@voodoo.utcc.utk.edu
- (kim snyder) writes:
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- >> Background:
- (mostly deleted)
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- >> sectors (512 bytes) 2,947,261
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- Here is a major part of your problem. Ultrix v4.1 will not deal with disks
- that are greater than 1GB. What's happening is that you are wrapping around.
- It's Ultrix v4.2 that goes with the 10byte addresseing scheme from the SCSI-2
- draft and will address disks of larger capacity.
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- It is just possible (because the addressing limit is on a partition basis) that
- if you NEVER address the c partition (which is usually defined as the entire
- disk) that you could get away with it. But, you're better off upgrading to at
- least Ultrix v4.2 for your workstation.
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- >> Maxtor has no clue about using their disk on unix much less on a
- >> decstation. could it be that since scsi is not scsi is not scsi,
- >> that there is something fundamentally wrong w/ this disk?
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- There's probably nothing wrong with the disk. Just the capability of the SCSI
- driver you're using to address a disk that size.
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- >> kim
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- I hope that this helps.
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- Thanx,
- AJ
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