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From: tmkk@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Microscience HD - Will it work?
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.183610.23269@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 91 18:36:10 GMT
Sender: tmkk@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Coleman)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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I have an opportunity to purchase a 120Mb HD made by Microscience. It's an
RLL drive (comes with a DTC RLL 1:1 controller). Glancing through the 
documentation for my '386, however, reveals no disk drive types in the (Award)
BIOS with 26 sector tracks (all are 17 sector). At this point it is unknown
whether the controller will perform the 26->17 sector translation or not. If
it won't, does this mean I won't be able to use this HD with my machine?
Would I need a) a special driver, such as the one included with Disk Manager
or perhaps b) (a) new BIOS ROM chip(s)?

Also, what's the limit on partition size with DOS 4.01? Can I use the entire
120Mb as a single partition, or will I have to divvy it up into multiple
logical drives?

Thanks in advance for the impartation of your wisdom.

-- 
Scott Coleman                                                    tmkk@uiuc.edu

"Unisys has demonstrated the power of two. That's their stock price today."
       - Scott McNealy on the history of mergers in the computer industry.