Re: TEAC SD-3105 IDE hard Disk settings

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From: Graham E Kinns
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 00:00

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David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Can  anyone  provide  me  with the TEAC  SD-3105  IDE  hard  disk 
>> cylinders, heads etc.
>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?

It has truncated the 1282 cyls at the Bios limit of 1024 :-

  1024*4*40*512 == 80*1024*1024

Cheers, Graham.
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----[ Graham E. Kinns ]----==========----< Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk >----

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From: Graham E Kinns <Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk>
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