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- From: gaspar@urz.unibas.ch
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: MFM Harddisc size
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.173551.42574@urz.unibas.ch>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 17:35:51 MET
- References: <1992Nov16.103443.42555@urz.unibas.ch> <1992Nov17.105656.22343@csd.uwe.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.180524.42564@urz.unibas.ch> <1992Nov19.090920.8363@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
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- In article <1992Nov19.090920.8363@csd.uwe.ac.uk>, r_voisey@garlic.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov17.180524.42564@urz.unibas.ch>, gaspar@urz.unibas.ch writes:
- >
- > |> > bigger than 50Megs you have to swap a link (to change sector size I think).
- > |> / ^^^^^^^^^^^
- > |> Could someone tell me what this means?
- >
- > |> 9 heads and when I enter that parameter I get a message that I might!
- > |> swap link 3 or something like that.
- >
- [ text deleted]
- So, if you want to swap link 3 you have to take the lid off your
- > machine, and find J3.
- [text deleted
-
- >
- > Hope that helps
-
- Yes it helped! Thanks. The jumper wasn't called J3 though. There are two
- jumpers next to the cables that go to the drive and they are calld PL8 and PL9.
- I tried out every combination of setting and it worked with BOTH jumpers
- changed. Does someone (maybe from Acorn?) know if that's ok?
-
- The problem wasn't solved completely because the drive should have 88 Meg
- capacity. After formatting with 17 Sect/Track, 9 Heads and 1024 Cylinders
- (The controller cannot cope with more that 1024, I think. The drive has 1073
- cylinders), I had about 40 Meg free on the drive. Where is the rest???
-
- I tried to format the drive with 32 Sect/Track and it worked. But this is
- probably not advisable to do.
- Any ideas?
-
- > Bob
- >
- > --
- > Robert J. Voisey : r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk
- > -- Probug Software Developments --
- > 162 Staplehill Rd, Fishponds, Bristol, Avon, England
-
- laci
- --
-
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- * Laci Gaspar, University Basel, Switzerland *
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