#Quantum 105S Specs
03-Oct-90 13:24:32
Sb: #2459-#Quantum 105S Specs
Fm: Dave Gray 72647,2407
To: George D. Brown 75016,3441
George:
This gets confusing. RES2: (SCSI address 0) is not a 'real' partition.
It is A) the location of the 'hardblocks' that tell the controller what the
drive is at boot time, and B) tells prep the location (SCSI address) of the
drive. The partition prep asks you about will be auto-mounted at boot. If
you have an A2090A (you poor guy!), this partition MUST be OFS, as the fast
file system isn't available till Dos is alive, and that happens MUCH later
in the sequence. Also, the name the drive gets is fixed, IE, if you have 2
drives, the auto-mount partitions are DH0: and DH1:, and you can't do
anything about it. I got screwed on this, as I named my second partition
DH1: on my original disk (most utilities don't know from FH1:) when I put a
second drive on, my partition vanished! (Actually, failed to mount) I ended
up with 2 different mount lists, depending on if I have the second drive
connected . (It isn't, most times) YUCK!