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From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: RLL vs IDE
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.170332.16638@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 17 Oct 90 17:03:32 GMT
References: <40552@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <513@swuts.swbt.com>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <513@swuts.swbt.com> ucmpme@swuts.swbt.com (1593]) writes:
>I have a Toshiba MK234FC-1 100meg IDE drive that works quite nicely
>with my UNIX - ESIX 3.2 Rev. D.  The drive is quiet, and fast!
>The only problem I've had is one I posted to the net some time ago--
>I can format the drive to 117mb on DOS, but ESIX refused to recognize
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>more than 820 or so cylinders.  Since it does give me more than the
>drive's rated capacity (about 109mb), I quit worrying about the extra 
>10 or so meg.

How did you get 117mb under DOS?  I have the 234FC in my 386 with AMI
BIOS and I only have ~104 mb.  I used the parameters Toshiba gave me.

Charles