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On 4 Dec 98 at 11:56, Winston Pike wrote:
> > The CP344 had 4 heads, 805 cyls, and 26 sectors/track, but could be
> >mapped as 5/977/17, presumably to accomodate BIOSes that could only
> >deal with 17-sector formats. This translated geometry appears to
> >have been supported on the CP343 as well, so you could try it....
>
> On another note, how do you translate the head/cylinder/sector from
> 4/805/26 to 5/907/17? Is there a formula for doing this?
I'd expect that there might be a jumper on the drive to
enable/disable this; label, if any might include 26, 17 or both. Or
just try entering these numbers into CMOS and see if that gets you
past your current problems.
David G
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