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From: coop4y44@bwdla28.bnr.ca (Takis Skagos)
Subject: Re: How to partition a drive on AT without drive table entry?
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.134518.10866@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
Summary:  Drive table entry ... partitioning 
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Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <5831@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1991 13:45:18 GMT

In article <5831@trantor.harris-atd.com>, sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
> 
> 	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.
> 	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?

   On my machine there is a blank entry in my drive table that
can be set up by the user.  You might want to check that out.

						Taki