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From: impett@super.super.org (Richard L Impett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Using "Disk Manager" software
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Date: 8 Jan 91 14:11:07 GMT
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Could someone enlighten me on the advantages and more importantly,
the disadvantages of using Seagate's Disk Manager software? I have
a Seagate 1150R disk which consists of 1072 cylinders, and 9 heads.
The disk controller I use (WD 1006 RLL) is supposed to be able to
handle 2048 cylinders, but it only seems to format to 1024. I
understand this is because of DOS limits. I am using Compaq DOS 3.31.
I am a little leary to use Disk Manager since it seems to use a 
"non-standard" method to fool DOS into thinking that there are less 
than 1024 cylinders. 

What kinds of incompatibilities (Norton, Spinrite, Windows, etc) can
I expect to find if I use Disk Manager to attempt to use all of the 
cylinders of my drive?


Rick Impett
impett@super.org