Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!busker!Howard.Spindel From: Howard.Spindel@busker.FIDONET.ORG (Howard Spindel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Recommendations wanted for large (>100 Mb) hard disks Message-ID: <39.23402BED@busker.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 27 Sep 88 15:55:02 GMT Organization: Busker's Boneyard; Portland, OR (503)771-4773 Lines: 41 > 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> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc r.FIDONEicle <29.233DBDD4@busker.FIDONET.ORG> Howard.Spindel@buskT.ORG > Howard Spindel) writes: < > 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. -- Howard Spindel - via FidoNet node 1:105/14 UUCP: ...!{uunet!oresoft, tektronix!reed}!busker!Howard.Spindel ARPA: Howard.Spindel@busker.FIDONET.ORG \...!{uunet!oresoft, tektronix!reed}!busker!Howard.Spindel