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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: What size is my Drive??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.151708.3497@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <255@heimdall.sdrc.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:17:08 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- drkerns@sony7.sdrc.com (sean kerns) writes:
-
- >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?
-
- This is normal. A lot of software is not compatible with anything other than
- 17 sectors/track, while most modern high capacity drives have more sectors
- than that. What happens is that the controller translates this into a lower
- number of sectors (17), but more tracks. The translation is arbitrary, and
- programs like Diskfix (or Spinrite or Calibrat) cannot directly access the
- physical interleave because they are getting virtual equivalents from the
- controller.
-
- -JTT
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-