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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Hard Drive info
Summary: Explanation of Hard Drives Wanted
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.031729.17806@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 7 Feb 91 03:17:29 GMT
Sender: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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  I was looking through the manual for my motherboard lately, and it claims
that the AMI BIOS has to be configured for A certain Hard Drive type.

A typical entry is

#  Drive Type          Cylinder  #heads  Write precomp  Landing Zone   Sector
XX  Seagate 10MB          733       7         -1              733       17

Can somebody with some spare time please tell me what all these things are?

And why is it that my Hard drive is configured as type NONE (it's a... SCSI!)

Any help would be great.

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storm@cs.mcgill.ca         McGill University           It's 11pm, do YOU
Marc Wandschneider         Montreal, CANADA            know what time it is?
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