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From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: How to partition a drive on AT without drive table entry?
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Date: 14 Mar 91 21:58:30 GMT
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Reply-To: sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
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	I have an AT clone for which I am trying to partition
an MFM drive using DOS's FDISK command. Apparently FDISK only
knows to assume Cylinders and Heads for the drive as those selected
during Setup of CMOS RAM. But there is no match of Cyls/Hds available
during Setup on my machine to match my hard drive.

	Evidently my Adaptec 2372 RLL controller (with g=C800:5 BIOS
stuff) that I previously used took care of knowing how many Cyls/Hds I
specified during Low Level Formatting and used those rather than the
Drive Type 1 parameters indicated in the CMOS setup.

	Is there some way that I can partition this MFM drive without having
the right drive type in BIOS? Is there software available to do whatever
my Adaptec controller BIOS did before?

	Thanks

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