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From: weaver@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Weaver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: BMS Boards, IMI drive mechanism, related problems...
Message-ID: <2903@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Sun, 6-Dec-87 20:50:16 EST
Article-I.D.: tut.2903
Posted: Sun Dec  6 20:50:16 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Dec-87 06:03:48 EST
Organization: OSU College of Business, guest of OSU Computer & Info Science
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	After some delay from BMS on delivering my boards (due to delays
on some cables to them) I finally got my BMS boards.  And with success:
the IMI drives (at least the one of the two I tried) worked.  It formatted
out to about 15Mb (that was the last I tried) with similar parameters to
the Seagate ST506 parameters provided with bmsinit.prg, but with 6 heads
and double the amount of cylinders (I think.)  However, right now I am
using a MiniScribe 20Mb that a friend loaned me (more capacity, smaller,
faster.)

	I have encountered an interesting problem, however...

	After trying to download an archive with Uniterm 1.7b, then trying
to download a uuencoded file, Uniterm gives me this nonsense about "Disk
Write failed:  No space on disk" crap.  Well, I think, this is not right;
there is only around 2.2Mb on my 10Mb C: partition.

	Sure enough, however, on returning back to the desktop and checking
with "Show Info", GEMDOS tells me that 0 bytes are available and 2.2Mb are
used.  What gives?

	If you get this mail, respond quickly, I plead.  This is finals
week at OSU and Thursday 12/10 I depart for my beloved home of NE Ohio :-)
If you have any info about this bug, please post or e-mail me.  Also, if
anyone has TURTLE, the hd backer-upper or HINSTALL, which was mentioned a
couple postings ago, *plueeease* e-mail, if possible.

	Much appreciated...

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Andrew Weaver, The Ohio State University College of Business
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