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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AMI BIOS vs. ESDI problem
Message-ID: <1894@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 8 Dec 89 14:45:13 GMT
References: <340045@hpsgpa.HP.COM>
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

In article <340045@hpsgpa.HP.COM> plim@hpsgpa.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes:

| I tried SpeedStor as well as the generic DiskManager to do low
| level formatting. Seems to go thru' either of them okay. I set
| the CMOS RAM drive type to 47 (user defined type), and enter 35 sectors
| per track and the rest ... Then, I used FDISK (or the utilities in
| DiskManager) to partition the drive into 5 drives (max. 32MB per
| partition). Then I did DOS format using either HP's MS-DOS or PC-DOS
| version 3.30.

  Have you tried following the instructions which come with the
controller? Mine said to set the drive type to one and gC800:5 (address
from memory, sorry). That and using 34 sectors seemed to work just fine,
although I don't diddle with any of those disk managers, I just use DOS
regular and extended partitions and UNIX partitions. 

  Since you need special software to use the whole disk you will have
to see how the special stuff works with the disk after using the
controller formatter.

  Unless your BIOS type has 35 sectors in its type 47 it frequently
won't work right. This may well be your problem.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon