Old 1542B & disks > 1Gb

[Stephen Hocking sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au]

I have an old 1542B controller & a barracuda, which has a DOS partition, then 
a FreeBSD partition and 400Mb free space on the end. Interestingly, the DOS 
fdisk only sees the first 1Gb of the drive (because the Adaptec BIOS sez 1 
cyl=1MB & 2040Mb is > 1024 Cyls). When I boot the 1st floppy, it comes up and 
says that it cannot find the DOS partition and to copy the floppy and try 
again. Hitting any key causes messages to the effect of "unknown keystroke: 
ff" (I don't have the machine in front of me, so cannot quote the exact 
message). Following the procedure (copying the floppy using the DOS on the 
drive, & rebooting) gives no joy. I might add that the DOS in question was 
also installed on an IDE drive in another machine and appears to work fine 
with Plan 9 on that machine. The machine with problems is a 486dx2 (66MHz), 
8Mb mem, ST12550N drive, 911S3 VGA, 2serial 1parallel, PAS-16 soundcard, 
Wangtek QIC-02 tape, et cetera


	Stephen


	Stephen
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