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- From: drkerns@sony7.sdrc.com (sean kerns)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: What size is my Drive??
- Message-ID: <255@heimdall.sdrc.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 13:51:06 GMT
- Sender: news@heimdall.sdrc.com
- Organization: SDRC
- Lines: 23
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- Can anyone help me with this one? I have a 386-33 tower clone with what I
- believe to be a 125Mb hard drive. The Start-up diagnostics (it has an AMI bios)
- say it is a 124Mb drive. The CMOS setup says it is a type 47 (user-defined)
- with 1001 cylinders,and that it is 125Mb. The numbers from CHKDSK figue out to
- 125Mb. PC Tools 7.1 System Info refers to it as a 130Mb drive. It is an IDE
- drive.
- When I run PC Tools' Diskfix.exe, it is again identidfied as a 130 Mb drive.
- When I select the Revitalize a Disk option for ths drive, it goes through a bunch
- of calculations. One of the things it tries to do is to calculate and set the
- optimum interleave for me, but it comes back with a message saying that
- this drive uses "sector translation, and reports a size which does not match its
- physical configuration".
-
- What's the deal? Is the drive set up wrong in CMOS? Is this an IDE thing?
- Why does PC Tools think it's 130Mb and can I fix that somehow? Is it not
- possible to set the interleave on these drives for some reason?
-
- I am fairly new to messing with this stuff, so any help would be greatly
- appreciated. The "technical" support people where I bought it have been little
- or no help.
- Thanks
-
- SRK
-