Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!gatech!prism!bb16 From: bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: How to access all of a 676MB ESDI Seagate/WREN under DOS 5 ? Message-ID: <31526@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 18 Jun 91 12:13:30 GMT References: <1991Jun17.124112.9416@ufhx1.ufh.ac.za> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 20 In article cg108w3@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Steve - Happy Hacker) writes: >If anyone is aware of a way to make DOS 5.0 use more than the first >1024 cyl's, the net eagerly awaits a solution.. :) > >Until then, 3.3 it is.. Hmmm.... I just told my AMI BIOS that my IDE drive was 1072x7x29, did the normal fdisk and format and got 106 MB (what you would expect). This was originally done under DOS 4.01, but I now have DOS 5.00 on it and haven't noticed any files missing :-) Granted, 1072 isn't much bigger than 1024, but it still forces something somewhere to hold an extra bit position..... -- Scott Bostater Georgia Tech Research Institute - Radar Systems Analysis "My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from Him" -Ps 62.1 uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!bb16 Internet: bb16@prism.gatech.edu