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"Anthony R. Gold" <tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk> writes:

 >The Seagate documentation recommends:
 >
 >  CHKDSK           Translation Geometry      CMOS
 >  Mbytes           Cyl    Heads Sec/Trk     Mbytes
 >   545.5          1057     16       63       520
 >
 >And everything appears just this way in the CMOS set-up screen and also in 
 >the MSD report.

If the MSD report shows 1057 cylinders, then my guess was right: you
don't have translation enabled and disk fix programs will flag all
cylinders beyond 1,024 as bad.

Since from your description I understand the partition extends beyond
cylinder 1,024, it must've been fdisked and formatted with translation
enabled.

 >Also, the files in the useable part of the disk are fine, so any change 
 >which would alter the way the disk is accesses in low cylinders region
 >will clearly not access these files correctly after a change.

Ha, yes, but *will* it change the way the cylinders <1024 are accessed?
That's implementation-dependent.

 >Any other ideas?

I don't know if I already mentioned this...

For more details, take a look at the "Yet Another" Enhanced IDE/
Fast-ATA/ATA-2 FAQ posted on comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage and
.misc. It is also available, together with related material, by FTP
from

   ftp.aimnet.com:/pub/users/clau/ide_ata/
   ftp.rahul.net:/pub/lps/hard-disk/
   ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl:/pub/faqs/

and by WWW from:

   http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/ata/
   http://www.seagate.com/techsuppt/faq/faqlist.html

Alternatively, you can get it through e-mail by sending me
(pieterh@sci.kun.nl) an empty mail with "ATA-2 FAQ please" in the
Subject line. Don't forget the please: the mailserver insists on
politeness ;^)

 - Peter