stupid PC tricks

From: Shawn T. Rutledge <rutledge_at_cx47646-a.phnx1.az.home.com>
Date: Mon May 15 16:41:01 2000

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 05:26:16PM -0400, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
> * The Compaq setup utility recognizes it as a "type 11" disk, but
> conveniently neglects to tell me anything about what this actually
> means. Thinking of it now, I should RTFM and see if this information
> is listed in any of the dead-trees docs I got with the machine.

Or on any other PC that has a real BIOS setup menu, select type 11 as
an installed disk and see what it says... usually it has a table with
all the parameters (heads, cylinders, sectors per cylinder, landing zone
etc).

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