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- From: prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Juergen Prang)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: HD with >1023 cyl. for DOS+386BSD without translation mode ?
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 00:24:45 GMT
- Organization: Universitaet Duisburg GH
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- Hi,
- I'm using a Conner CP3544 IDE HD (543.7MB, 12 heads, 1806 cyl, 49 sect.)
- for both DOS (200MB, 1st partition) and 386BSD (2nd partition). Because
- I didn't know anything better, I setup the drive type 47 with 1023 cyl.,
- 16 heads and 63 sectors (DOS maximum) with my AMI BIOS (dated 7/7/91),
- thereby loosing some 10 MB and running the drive in translation mode
- (some problems known with 386BSD). The drive was partitioned with DR-DOS's
- fdisk.
-
- The following questions arise:
- Is it possible to setup the drive with its real parameters to circumvent
- translation mode and giving 386BSD the whole rest of the drive ?
- Will BIOS/DOS (and soon OS/2) function properly with these parameters on
- its 200MB partition ?
- Will I have to setup some parameters differently than given above ?
- Are any other important things worth to be considered (possible potential
- problems with DOS/OS2/386BSD etc.) ?
-
- If these are FAQs, please point me to an archive for the answers.
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- Juergen Prang | prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de
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