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)
> and I have set the parameters from the plate on the drive into the
> bios...
>
> But FDISK insists that the drive is only 504 MB. Who ate half of my
> disk drive??
Some BIOSen will only address 1024 cylinders, even if they "see" more.
OnTrack, Drive Rocket, EZDrive, any of the drive overlay programs will
get around that.
--
Doc Shipley (( And when thou hack'st her box, thou shalt
Austin, Texas )) lay that pipe with exceeding great vigour,
(( yea, even unto the screaming and clawing
doc_at_vaxen.net )) and biting. -- Cantrell
Received on Mon Mar 17 2003 - 00:26:28 GMT