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From: lwb@pensoft.UUCP (Lance Bledsoe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: AT Hard Disk Tables and CMOS
Message-ID: <2971@pensoft.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 90 16:10:09 GMT
References: <59398@aurs01.UUCP>
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Organization: Pencom Software, Austin, TX
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In article <59398@aurs01.UUCP> luce@aurw46.UUCP (J. Luce) writes:
>I have an AT clone (Hyundai 286C) and I have an Atasi HD with 7 heads
>and 644 cylinders of 17 sectors. The drive table for CMOS configuration
>does not have this model in there. How can I get the info into CMOS? I
>looked at CMOSER.EXE and it shows the drive table but not how it maps to
>the CMOS... any help would be greatly appreciated...

Go get a package called SPEEDSTORE.  Speedstore will allow you to "add your own
disk parms" by inserting them into the boot sector on the disk.  This will allow
you to use any MFM, RLL, ESDI, etc. disk without having the correct parms in 
CMOS.  Another benifit is that there are no special drivers required.

Some clone mfgs will ship you a system with a disk that has more heads or cyls
than the CMOS type suooprts.  Speedstore can allow you to make your disk 
slightly larger (altough I have seen increases as much as 8-10 meg).

There is no way to "add" new parms (permanantly that is) to the CMOS without
burning a new set of ROMS.

good luck



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