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From: Hamish Moffatt
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 00:00

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Sunday November 19 1995 11:55, bgerseko@powerup.com.au wrote:

 > I used to run a 540M EIDE drive off a standard IDE controller, but it was
 > no trouble under Linux, or MS-LOSS.

 > Note that you will not be able to access the whole drive using a standard
 > IDE card. I was only able to access the first 1024 cylinders, which is
 > the standard IDE limit. From memory, that cut me back to 504M, so if
 > you're non-recognition problem is one of only getting 500 odd Meg from
 > each drive - that's normal.

 > If you want to read the whole drive, get yourself a cheap EIDE
 > controller...

An EIDE controller won't help DOS; you need Disk Manager or EzDrive or 
whatever, or better yet: LBA mode.

LBA mode gives DOS the whole drive.


hamish

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