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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: How to partition a drive on AT without drive table entry?
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Date: 20 Mar 91 00:08:45 GMT
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In article <5831@trantor.harris-atd.com> sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
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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.

I recommend you buy a WD 1006V-SR2. This will RLL your drive
and let you specify the geometry. Despite all the fear and
doubt you will hear, I personally have had very good experience
with RLLing Seagate drives like the 251 and the 4096. If it
works with Seagate, it will probably work with most disks.
If it doesn't work, new disks are getting really cheap anyway.

In the way of software, you can use Disk Manager or Speedstor.


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