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From: mqvortru@iiic.ethz.ch (Michael Heide Qvortrup)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Drive>1024 tracks
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Date: 25 Mar 91 15:07:41 GMT
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In article <1991Mar25.104137.20709@agate.berkeley.edu> 128a-1ha@e260-4e.berkeley.edu writes:
>...
>Also I notice that fdisk only reconize 78meg (1024 track 4 head 39 sec)
>Is the only way to get the extra tracks is to use something like Disk Manager
>or SpeedStor, if so which one is better? (Must be compatible with Windows)
>...

I don't know about compatibility between Disk Manager and Windows when you have more than
1024 tracks (I don't think my own disk has more, but I can't tell, the thing is at home
and I'm not). I can say though, that my system (12MHz AT with a 20 MB normal disk and a 40 MB
extra disk), where Disk Manager controls the 40 MB disk, has had no problems with Windows.
It has been running since autumn. I think the combination Disk Manager & Windows is okay,
also for more tracks than 1024 (after all, Disk Manager should hide this).

What won't work, is Nortons disk organiser and Disk Manager. It crashed. Fortunately, it didn't
loose any files, but I haven't dared it again. And no, Windows was not running.

--Mike