More than 1024 cyls in Dos 5??

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From: Rolf Isaksson
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:26

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I'm trying to install a Microscience 1090 disk on my 386 with AMI bios.
The problem is that the disk has 1300+ cylinders. Disk type 47 in the bios
seems to work ok, it even lowlevelformats all cylinders.

But both Fdisk and Format refuse to give me more than 1024 cylinders
(60 Mb instead of 76 something). Is Dos5 really limited to 1024 cyls. or
am I missing something. Pctools SI program reports 1024 cylinders on
Physical Details. I have also tried using Drivparm to no avail.

Can anyone clarify please.

Regards
Rolf Isaksson
ROIS@Nobeltech.SE

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From: rois@nobeltech.se (Rolf Isaksson)
Subject: More than 1024 cyls in Dos 5??
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:26:45 GMT
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