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- From: risner@ms.uky.edu (James Risner)
- Subject: Re: IDE 1806 cylin. formatting ? help
- References: <1992Jul21.234244.2845@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- <1992Jul22.171943.140@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.32731.17041@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 07:27:31 GMT
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- esaffle@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ed Saffle) writes:
-
- >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)
-
- Actually to get this to coexist with fdisk you are required to use the
- autoajusting geometry of
- 903 cylc, 8 heads, 46 sectors...
-
- Braindamagement of days long gone places hard limits of 1024 cylcs, 64 sectors,
- and 256 heads. The only way around this is to lower the max head count, and
- that is difficult to do since nothing is compatiable with your NEW fdisk
- partitioning format... Why would the people who came up with the partitioning
- scheme only allocate THREE BYTES to the cylc, sector AND head count?
- THREE BYTES!!!!!
-
- Risner
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