#MSDOS 6.2 and UNI_ASP
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I have the following SCSI devices installed:
SCSI ID 0 – LUN 0: CONNER CP3200-200mb-3.5
SCSI ID 1 – LUN 0: CONNER CP3200-200mb-3.5
SCSI ID 2 – LUN 0: DENON DRD-25X
SCSI ID 3 – LUN 0: MAXTOR RTX-800HS
I tried to install the MSDOS 6.2 "Step Up" and get the following messages
when the driver for the MAXTOR is loaded:
CorelDRIVER! Version 2.40d (Universal)
Copyright (C) Corel Corporation 1987 – 1993
All rights reserved.
Using ASPI SCSI host adapter interface
Number of cashe buffers allocated: 04
installed as drive E:, scsi id 3, lun 0, host adapter 0
Sector size is too large in file C:\CORELDRV\UNI-ASP.SYS
Error in CONFIG.SYS line 15
Where is this "sector size" message coming from and what can I do about it.
I am currently running MSDOS 6.0 and it appears to work.
Thanx.
Paul Wolfgang
I'm not at all sure what devices your numbers represent but I think I can
solve your mystery if any of them were formatted using CFormat. CorelSCSI uses
1024 byte sectors, although it will recognize smaller ones. DOS only goes up to
512 byte sectors. CorelSCSI does this by running PATCH.EXE and patching your
system files to allow the larger sector size. Fine–but 6.2 overwrote your old
6.0 hidden system files and in the process erased the patch!
Try this: go to the directory with CorelSCSI in it, type PATCH, and choose
1024. Reboot, and see if this doesn't cure the problem. If it doesn't, you may
have devices with even larger sector sizes….
That did it. I checked the previous value of the Patch and it was 2048.
Installing the Patch on MSDOS 6.2 with the 2048 value works just fine.
Thanx for your help.
Paul Wolfgang