Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!riacs!pioneer.arc.nasa.gov!endter
From: endter@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Bill Endter RCU/DEC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How to access all of a 676MB ESDI Seagate/WREN under DOS 5 ?
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.173113.16027@riacs.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 17:31:13 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.124112.9416@ufhx1.ufh.ac.za> <CG108W3.91Jun17220036@icogsci1.icogsci1.ucsd.edu> <31526@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Sender: news@riacs.edu
Reply-To: endter@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Bill Endter RCU/DEC)
Organization: RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center
Lines: 19

In article <31526@hydra.gatech.EDU>, bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater) writes:
|> In article <CG108W3.91Jun17220036@icogsci1.icogsci1.ucsd.edu> 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 :-)
|> 

   Are you saying that CHKDSK gives you 106,xxx,xxx bytes total disk space, 
or 111,xxx,xxx bytes.  CHKDSK should give you 111,xxx,xxx bytes total disk space using the above parameters.  (1072*7*29*512)  If CHKDSK is giving you
106,xxx,xxx then I think DOS is only looking at 1024 cylinders. (1024*7*29*512)

	Bill