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From: jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM (Gerald Hawkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: non-standard drive in pc
Keywords: drive hard disk cmi
Message-ID: <909@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 89 05:47:18 GMT
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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I've been trying to format an ancient CMI 5616 for use in my AT clone.

Unfortunately, the 5616 seems to have 256 cylinders, 6 heads (16 MB
total) and therefore does not match any of the drive type choices offered
by BIOS or by IBM diagnostics.  Trying to specify a larger drive type (and
letting the non-existent cylinders be considered defective) fails; the
diagnostic requires 20 MB of usable area to proceed with a 21MB drive
type.  I can't use it as 10 MB because the standard 10 MB drive has 306
cylinders--again the diag refuses to proceed due to excessive defects.

Is there any way to use this old clunker productively?


Rainy Days and
Automatic Weapons Fire
Alway Get Me Down.

These opinions are mine.
Jerry.  (jerry@starfish.convergent.COM)
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