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In article <832427493snz@longley.demon.co.uk>, David Longley
<David@longley.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <832357354snz@longley.demon.co.uk>
>           David@longley.demon.co.uk "David Longley" writes:
>
>> Can  anyone  provide  me  with the TEAC  SD-3105  IDE  hard  disk 
>> cylinders, heads etc.
>> -- 
>> David Longley
>> 
>Whilst the drive reports itself as 1282 cylinders, 4 heads and 40 
>sectors, it is supposed to be a 104MB hard disk. FDISK reports it 
>as 80MB!
>
>Can anyone explain?

I seem to remember something similar a couple of years ago. A disk I had 
of about 80Mb was only showing 50Mb. I found what looked like Unix or 
some sort of networking s/w on it that would just about boot on an IBM
pc, (don't shout at me if it couldn't be Unix, I can't quite recall) and
I could find no way of deleting (a), the partition or (b), the s/w.
Anyway, to get the full 80Mb's I low level formatted the disk with Ami
BIOS's LLF facility and it worked at full capacity from then on.

OK children, low level format of an IDE drive is not to be recommended
unless there is no other alternative. 

TC
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TC