V/386 + 630Mb ESDI = Trouble?

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.UUCP
Fri Aug 25 13:33:13 AEST 1989


In article <781 at sdrc.UUCP>, scjones at sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
> 
> So, does anyone have any ideas how I can determine exactly where
> the problem is?  Is it the disk, the controller, the hd driver,
> or something else in the kernel?  Has anyone else used large ESDI
> drives with V/386?  It claims to support them, but has anyone
> actually done it?  Help?


I am running a 650 Meg ESDI drive under 386/ix, but the controller I am using
is the DPT caching controller which appears to the system as an st506.

I have 2.5 meg of cache on the controller and have been very impressed 
with the performance.



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