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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Setup Problem - I Need Help
Message-ID: <1614@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 26 Sep 90 15:32:16 GMT
References: <304@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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in article <304@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM>, ra@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM says:

> The harddisk I have is a Miniscribe Cyl 771, HD 4, Pre 128, PZ 810, Sec 26
> Size 39.  It was orginally in a Packard Bell computer.

The Miniscribe 20MB had a jumper that would configure the 4hd / 26 sector 
as if it were 6 * 17, wasting a little, but making it compatible with
BIOS type 2, ( I think ).  I've got documents buried somewhere.
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