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- From: esaffle@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ed Saffle)
- Subject: Re: IDE 1806 cylin. formatting ? help
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.171943.140@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
- Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
- References: <1992Jul21.234244.2845@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:19:43 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <1992Jul21.234244.2845@memstvx1.memst.edu> shenyk@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
- >Just buy a new CP-30174E IDE drive
- >it's 4 heads,46 sectors. "1806" tracks ===> 170 MB (by the spec.sheet
- >d/l from Conner BBS)
-
- Are you sure you mean tracks...assuming you really mean cylinders,
- 4 heads * 1806 cylinders *46 sectors = 162Megs. (plus a little bit)
-
- >my system 386-33, 12/24/90 AMI bios.
- >
- >the problem is : fdisk only found 92 MB ?(dos v5)
-
- There has to be SOMETHING messed up here. Check to make sure you've entered
- a bios setting that definitely does have 4 heads, 46 sectors, and 1806
- cylinders. Sometimes it is possible to get a number wrong somewhere.
-
- >and if I use Disk Manager v5 ,I have to partition some of them as
- >"READ-WRITE" which are non-dos partition--->window won't run because
- >smartdrive said it's incompatiable partition.
-
- I used diskmanager ONCE. I just don't get along with it. Partly because it
- does stuff like assign read/write partitions, and partly because it just
- doesn't do what I want a program to do with a hard disk. My documentation
- for harddrives is kind of old, so it doesn't list the drive you have, I need
- to find something more up to date. Other than double checking stuff I'm not
- sure what could be wrong (without being there myself).
-
- ed (esaffle@gmuvax2.gmu.edu)
-
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