[Coco] Hard drive trouble

[George Ramsower]

 As I was exploring around my hard drive and the floppies of this stuff, I 
just discovered this fact about the same time this 'puter went DingDong on 
your message.
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I remember now that I'm using 512 byte sectors and the driver to do 
so(SCSISYS). I believe that's what I did, replaced the KenTon driver with 
the SCSISYS driver and set it all up for 512 byte sectors. It's "supposed" 
to give more storage space, but I never needed it. I got greedy.
 Right now, I'm trying to find the source of SCSISYS. So far, I haven't.

 Anyway, can this make my problem appear several years later?

 I can't go back to 128 byte sectors until I can fix this problem I'm now 
having.

 Like I said earlier, it used to work fine with two drives using everything 
I'm now using unless I did something that I don't remember. I've been using 
this setup for many years.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Devries"


>I notice you're using SCSISYS. That driver should have a program with it to 
>create the descriptors for you. (DescGen???) I have a disk image of the 
>SCSISYS disk here somewhere, if you need it.
> For this to work, the driver *MUST* be called SCSISYS

It came with... I think.... ScsiSys  Scsidesc   Scsifmt

 I recall using those a LONG time ago.. Scsifmt is what I used to reformat 
my second drive when I discovered it was broke.
 However, I'm not so sure it's really broke. I think something in my system 
messed it up as there is that conflict with addressing the /h0 drive and the 
/h1 drive at the same time.
 What's wierd is that my primary drive is working fine. No lost files or 
problems at all. It's just that when I try to access /h1, the /h0 drive 
appears in it's place, even if the second drive is on the cable.
 If I put the second drive online all by itself, it too responds to /h0 and 
/h1, even though it doesn't work, the drive light still lights up.