HD with >1023 cyl. for DOS+386BSD without translation mode ?

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1 total messages Started by Juergen Prang Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:24

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Author: Juergen Prang
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:24

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Hi,
I'm using a Conner CP3544 IDE HD (543.7MB, 12 heads, 1806 cyl, 49 sect.)
for both DOS (200MB, 1st partition) and 386BSD (2nd partition). Because
I didn't know anything better, I setup the drive type 47 with 1023 cyl.,
16 heads and 63 sectors (DOS maximum) with my AMI BIOS (dated 7/7/91),
thereby loosing some 10 MB and running the drive in translation mode
(some problems known with 386BSD). The drive was partitioned with DR-DOS's
fdisk.

The following questions arise:
Is it possible to setup the drive with its real parameters to circumvent
  translation mode and giving 386BSD the whole rest of the drive ?
Will BIOS/DOS (and soon OS/2) function properly with these parameters on
  its 200MB partition ?
Will I have to setup some parameters differently than given above ?
Are any other important things worth to be considered (possible potential
problems with DOS/OS2/386BSD etc.) ?

If these are FAQs, please point me to an archive for the answers.
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