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From: ersys!davem@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Dave McCrady)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How to partition a drive on AT without drive table entry?
Message-ID: <4X6uy2w164w@ersys.uucp>
Date: 15 Mar 91 18:45:14 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.134518.10866@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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coop4y44@bwdla28.bnr.ca (Takis Skagos) writes:

> In article <5831@trantor.harris-atd.com>, sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob
> > 
> > 	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

  You might also look into a software package called SPEEDSTOR, which
lets you build a custom configuration and writes it to CMOS .. and then 
takes care of formatting and partitioning your drive...


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