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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: problem with pctools
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.155014.10973@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <721156012.2@altern8.mi>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:50:14 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- Bob.Dickey@altern8.mi.org (Bob Dickey) writes:
-
- >MG>a friend of mine uses PCTOOLS 7.1 with a 31MB-RLL-Harddisk. The disk is set
- >MG>to type 2 in the CMOS-setup ( 614 cyln, 4 heads, 17 sectors, 20MB ). All
- >MG>worked fine until PC-CACHE, SI or DISKFIX is started. PC-CACHE reports a
- >MG>difference betwenn the bios-settings and the real settings, DISKFIX won't
- >MG>analyze the disk and SI reports a 59,4 MB disk with 781 cyln and 6 heads.
-
- >MG>I tried to fix this problem with fdisk from DROS but it says 59,6 MB, too.
- >MG>I thought, the settings for any harddisk is stored in the cmos and nowhere
- >MG>else, but there must be some other place, because fdisk and si shows exactly
- >MG>the same ( wrong ) values.
-
- >MG>What could I do to repair this disk ?? DISKFIX reports a bad bootblock or
- >MG>diagnostic-block, but all other programs work and the disk does boot.
-
- >You don't say if its on a 286 or not. My 286 CMOS is set up with OUT the HD
- >on it. I don't understand this but it works. It sees it when booting up and
- >everything. It is a Seagate HD, I think. Someone was playing with my CMOS
- >setup and put my HD in. It would NOT work when the HD was put on the CMOS.
- >I don't understand it but I wont change any of the CMOS to show the HD. I
- >sugjust not putting you HD in your CMOS. Maybe that will work, why I don't
- >know, though. Any comments.
-
- This is because you are using an 8-bit XT hard disk controller that has its
- own BIOS. In this case, you tell your PC-BIOS that *no* hard disk(s) is/are
- installed. Better yet, buy a 16-bit controller and then set your PC-BIOS to
- the correct parameters.
-
- -JTT
-