MS DOS and disk drives maybe OT

From: Ron Hudson <rhudson_at_cnonline.net>
Date: Fri Mar 14 15:19:01 2003

On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 10:27 AM, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Ron Hudson wrote:
>> Please forgive me if this is Off Topic...
>> I have a 1 gig drive in a 486. The BIOS sees the whole 1.2 gig (wd
>> caviar 21200)
>
> the BIOS (disk I/O) or the CMOS setup program?

CMOS setup program... (press del as the machine boots)


>
>> and I have set the parameters from the plate on the drive into the
>> bios...
> CMOS
>> But FDISK insists that the drive is only 504 MB. Who ate half of my
>> disk drive??
>
> WHICH version of MS-DOS?

6.2.2

>
>> can I get it back?
>
> yes
>
>> how?
>> I have tried to create secondary partitions but "no disk space
>> remains"
>
> Is your controller "EIDE"?
>
>

um, stumped here.

It's an ISA card and also has serial and parallel, game port and floppy
connectors on it.
Received on Fri Mar 14 2003 - 15:19:01 GMT