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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: <1991Mar19.193211.7888@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
Summary: Blank Drive Table
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Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <5831@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1991Mar15.134518.10866@bwdls61.bnr.ca> <5854@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 19:32:11 GMT

In article <5854@trantor.harris-atd.com>, sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
> 	Thanks for the reply. This weekend, I heard the rumor that both
> AMI and Award BIOSes have such a wild card Drive Type entry. Can
> someone enlighten me on how to access and use these to specify any desired
> number of Cylinders and Heads for a non-standard disk drive?
> 	Anyone know details about this "wild card" drive table entry?
> I would be very grateful to know about this. (Ecstatic, even).

  Hi.  The BIOS in my machine is AMI (I don't have the dates handy
though, sorry).  Just go into 'setup' (with my machine I press <delete>
during the POST) and select the easy setup and go to the where the
hard drive selection stuff is.  On my machine the blank drive entry
is the last one.  All I have to do is modify the fields of the
description.  It is all pretty easy.  I hope this helps a bit ... but
remember that my description of what to do may differ for different
BIOSes.  Good luck!

						Taki