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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: 2.05R: failure to get fd parameters correctly
To: gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com (Justin T. Gibbs)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 20:50:15 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199506181756.KAA23238@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Jun 18, 95 10:56:16 am
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Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> 
> >I tried to install 2.05R on a CSSI only system with a 2GB Quantum
> >EMPIRE_2100S (Btw: dont try this at hoime..that disk sucks)
> >Anyway: after installing all of it, it failed to boot from the
> >fixed disk with a missing operating system.
> >So I tried to reinstall it but now I chang4ed the geomtery to 
> >what 2.0R reported when booting. This just failed. Every key I touched
> >I got this popu menu shouting that I entered the wrong geometry :-(
> >I `solved' the problem by adding a dos partition of 1 meg, but this
> >is bad. I dont want DOS. And I dont understand why I caanot use the geometry
> >reported by 2.0R when booting for the 2.05R installs...
> >
> >-Guido
> 
> I installed to an Empire 2100 last nigt using the standard Adaptec
> geometry since it was hanging of a 2742T.  What kind of disk controller
> are you using?

OOps...sorry:
An ncr 53c810 controller.

This is waht 2.0R thought of it:

sd2: 2006MB (4108600 total sec), 3053 cyl, 12 head, 112 sec, bytes/sec 512

-Guido