Large hard disks for the 3B2 300/310/400 (Was: Re: Looking for info on 3b2)

[Pim Zandbergen]

In article <830 at vsi.UUCP> friedl at vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>In article <340 at anumb.UUCP>, adh at anumb.UUCP (a.d.hay) writes:
>>
>> ANY ST412/506 drive will plug 'n play, if you can figure out how to
>> format it (yes, even the 190Mb ones ;^>).  CDC makes the OEM drives.
>
>We have heard from a plausible source that the idtools will not
>format a drive larger than about 72mb.  Word has is that Congruent
>Technologies (they sell a 170MB drive) wrote their own idtools
>to do this.  We have not tried this -- anybody else done it?

We use "devtools", the predecessor of "idtools" to format
Newbury Data NDR 2190 hard disks. These are 190 MB unformatted,
144 MB formatted (you can only use 1024 of the 1224 cylinders).
Works just fine, only /etc/prtconf still displays "72 MB" on boot-up.
Has anybody  any idea how to fix this?


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