I used OnTrack to expand my old 486SX BBS system to its first (WD) 720MB
hard drive. Worked like a champ! Prior to that, I'd had 2 drives -- a
Maxtor _at_ 120MB, and a Seagate 340MB. Both fell inside the design specs.
Adding the 720MB drive on IDE2 (didn't even have a CD then...) was a pain
before discovering OnTrack.
Cheers!
Ed Tillman
Store Automation Tech Support Specialist
Valero Energy Corporation
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048
Email: edward.tillman_at_valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman_at_valero.com>
-----Original Message-----
From: Doc Shipley [mailto:doc_at_docsbox.net]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 10:59 AM
To: Classic Computers
Subject: Re: MS DOS and disk drives maybe OT
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 24 2003 - 00:28:01 GMT