Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!calgary!cpsc!paquette From: paquette@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Hardframe + ST296N Message-ID: <1725@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Date: 18 Aug 89 16:05:43 GMT Sender: news@calgary.UUCP Lines: 39 Keywords: something is amiss I am having some trouble with the following configuration: Amiga 2000 (1.3 rom, 1 meg 2 floppies, GOMF button) Hardframe + ST296N I can do a low-level format of the drive (HDFormat?) just fine, then I can run RDPrep to set up partitions and the like again with no problems. I use the following number to give me as close to the full 165851 blocks on the drive as possible. (anyone else got better numbers?) # of heads: 7 # of blocks per track: 24 # of cylinders: 987 ( 7 * 24 * 987 = 165816) I have used the following info for RDPrep: FileSystem L:FastFileSystem (other filesystem stuff are the defaults) Partition 1 Name DH0 Start Cyl 1 End Cyl 184 (15meg) Boot Priority 3 Partition 2 Name DH1 Start Cyl 185 End Cyl 677 (40meg) Boot Priority 2 Partition 3 Name DH2 Start Cyl 678 End Cyl 924 (20meg) Boot Priority 1 Partition 4 Name DH3 Start Cyl 925 End Cyl 987 (5meg) Boot Priority 0 (DH0 is system commands, etc.. DH1 is work area DH2 is games area and DH3 is temp storage/scratch area) BUT then when I reboot the machine the HardFrame docs say that the newly created partitions should be 'automounted'. I then try to actually format the partitions: 'format drive dh0: name System_Drive quick ffs', all I get back is 'Drive not found'. Info also shows no DH? drive at all.. I have tried to self-test on the Seagate drive and it passes it just fine. (What?? You've never heard that ALL Seagate drives have a built in self check mode?? I'll give more info on that in a later message) Therefore it can't be the drive. I called MicroBotics and the guy there does not think it sounds like a controller problem either. (ie both the low level format and the RDprep semm to work just fine, they don't complain at all. Anyone have any ideas? Trev ________________________________/Luminous beings we are, not this crude matter Trevor Paquette ICBM:51'03"N/114'05"W| | {ubc-cs,utai,alberta}!calgary!paquette| ____+____ .signature under construction calgary!paquette@cs.ubc.ca ||16 tonnes| Hard Hat area