MS DOS and disk drives maybe OT

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_docsbox.net>
Date: Mon Mar 17 00:26:28 2003

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.

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