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From: erich@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Horst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: IBM AT and ST251 drive
Summary: Need to find config to make all space available on ST251
Keywords: BIOS ?
Message-ID: <18492@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 91 23:27:55 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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I bought an IBM AT used and it came with an ST-251 drive installed.
(6 head,820 cyl, 17 sect, 42MB capacity).  It has previously been in 
service and had TWO partitions and TWO 20Mb logical drives.  I wanted
to start fresh so I repartitioned it, etc, but now everything says that
the drive has 6 heads, 615 cyls, 17 sect and only 32Mb capacity (bios
type 3).  I have physically verified on the drive that the larger size
is correct. 

Obviously a bios type problem, but there is no drive that matches.
I have never had to install a new drive like this before and need to know
how this can be made to work.  It obviously worked before but I am stumped.


I have tried as many things as I can think of.  I could use the 10Mb.
Can anyone give me a hint?

Thanks,

Eric Horst
University of Washington
erich@cac.washington.edu