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- From: vihuri@cc.tut.fi (Tapio Vihuri)
- Subject: **if setup say 17 sec/track and HD is RLL then what**
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.090452.23441@cc.tut.fi>
- Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 09:04:52 GMT
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- I use RLL controller (26 sectors/track) and I'd like to use this in my computer
- but, my CMOS setup knows only MFM drives because all drive table types says
- 17 sectors. Bios is Award but type 48 don't work.
- So the problem is that after low-level I try fdisk but it thinks my drive is
- 1024 cyl 8 heads and 17 sec = 68 Mbytes. While it is 26 sectors and 104 Mbytes
- And ofcourse it won't boot up. I can low-level format my drive with 17 sectors
- (WDfmt allow to do that) but I want use full capasity. So any opinnion about
- what to do next?
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- T.Tapio Vihuri vihuri@cc.tut.fi 931-186692, yksrivisen sigun kannattaja!
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