CompuServe Messages

Dave, I was surprised at how much capacity was lost on a big drive with large clusters. Seems terrible to lose over 100 MB because of inefficiency! I remember when DOS first came out with hard disk support for the XT. Then it seemed like a disk with 1024 cylinders and 80MB capacity was huge. How quickly things change. Sorry to hear about your SCSI troubles. Did you try it with just one hard disk on the bus? I usually have the best luck troubleshooting with the simplest possible system. When I've seen problems like that, it usually turns out to be something related to conflicts in IRQ's, I/O addresses, BIOS addresses, RAM bufffers, DMA channels, etc. I have finally resorted to keeping a file on disk with my current assignments for all those things. That makes it _much_ easier to find conflicts or setup new devices to avoid conflicts. Stuff like this is really a pain. Let me know if I can help. -=Rob=-