TEAC SD-3105 IDE hard Disk settings

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#3038

Author: David Longley
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 00:00

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Can  anyone  provide  me  with the TEAC  SD-3105  IDE  hard  disk 
cylinders, heads etc.
-- 
David Longley

Re: TEAC SD-3105 IDE hard Disk settings

#3033

Author: David Longley
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 00:00

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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?
-- 
David Longley

Re: TEAC SD-3105 IDE hard Disk settings

#3034

Author: Mike Kinder
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 00:00

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In article <832357354snz@longley.demon.co.uk>, David Longley
<David@longley.demon.co.uk> writes
>Can  anyone  provide  me  with the TEAC  SD-3105  IDE  hard  disk 
>cylinders, heads etc.

641 x 8 x 40
capacity is 105mb-- 
Mike Kinder

Re: TEAC SD-3105 IDE hard Disk settings

#3035

Author: Tim C
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 00:00

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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
-- 
TC

Re: TEAC SD-3105 IDE hard Disk settings

#3036

Author: David Longley
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 00:00

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In article <J0IcRAAlJXnxEwWr@mjkinder.demon.co.uk>
           mike@mjkinder.demon.co.uk "Mike Kinder" writes:

> In article <832357354snz@longley.demon.co.uk>, David Longley
> <David@longley.demon.co.uk> writes
> >Can  anyone  provide  me  with the TEAC  SD-3105  IDE  hard  disk 
> >cylinders, heads etc.
> 
> 641 x 8 x 40
> capacity is 105mb-- 
> Mike Kinder
> 

Ahh,  so  I can substitute these for the daft  parameters  I  was 
trying before can I? Many thanks.
-- 
David Longley

Re: TEAC SD-3105 IDE hard Disk settings

#3037

Author: 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.
-- 
----[ Graham E. Kinns ]----==========----< Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk >----

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