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From: Howard.Spindel@busker.FIDONET.ORG (Howard Spindel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Recommendations wanted for large (>100 Mb) hard disks
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Date: 27 Sep 88 15:55:02 GMT
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> From: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
> Date: 26 Sep 88 17:13:06 GMT
> Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
> Message-ID: <3995@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
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> Howard Spindel) writes:
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> But last I knew, DOS only know how to count 1024 cylinders, anyway,
>> so the extra 200 cylinders are either unused or left to another
>> operating system to access. (We have the same problem with Maxtor
>> 2190's.)
 
Yeah, DOS does only know how to count 1024 cylinders, but the Maxtor
2190 came with a special version of SpeedStor which gets around the 
problem (how I don't know).  Anyway, I do get the extra 200 cylinders 
under DOS - the disk formats to 160mb which I partition as 5 32mb disks. 
SpeedStor will allow you to create partitions greater than 32mb but I 
don't use them for fear of compatibility problems with other programs.
Actually, the problem was not that DOS only knows about 1024 cylinders - 
it usually is a BIOS limitation rather than a DOS limitation.



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