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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA704 ; Sat, 06 Feb 93 23:01:51 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!milo.mcs.anl.gov!donner.mcs.anl.gov!toonen From: toonen@mcs.anl.gov (Brian R. Toonen) Subject: IDE Drive Translation Message-ID: <1993Feb5.162455.1030@mcs.anl.gov> Sender: usenet@mcs.anl.gov Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 16:24:55 GMT Lines: 33 Could someone please send me some information (or a location where information can be obtained) on IDE drive translation. I have a Micropolis 2112A 1001Mb IDE drive with 2034 cylinders, 16 heads, and 63 sectors/track. I had a 200Mb DOS partition, a 200Mb partition which was reserved for NT and 600Mb for 386BSD. Normally, the DC-680 IDE adapter translates the drive into 1017 cylinders with 32 heads. In order to get 386BSD to work, I had to disable the translation option on the IDE adapter. This caused DOS to report that only a 503Mb drive was installed. This was not a problem until I attempted to install NT. Apparently, NT did not like the 600Mb 386BSD partition. While trying to format the second parition, it destroyed the 386BSD partition and then the format program died with complaints of lacking memory (I have 16Mb). I removed the 600Mb partition and tried to install NT again; this time it was successful. I can now reinstall 386BSD, but anytime I have to reformat NTFS (likely to occur), I will have to remove 386BSD first. The solution would appear to be to switch the drive back to translated mode, but this would cause BSD to fail (being my favorite of the three OS's, that would not be the desired effect). Any suggestions or comments other than to remove NT would be greatly appreciated. Brian R. Toonen ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Brian R. Toonen | I speak only for | | Mathematics and Computer Science Division | myself and not for | | Argonne National Laboratory | my employer! | | toonen@mcs.anl.gov | | ------------------------------------------------------------------