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Carl Barnhart <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:00:07 EDT
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Can any of you tell me if my Bios auto detected my hard drive correctly..?

This is written on the hard drive itself:
(CHS) 16,383  Cylinders 16 heads 63 sectors
        40079088 addressible sectors

This is what was autodetected in my bios:
Capacity   20521
Cylinder   39761
Head   16
Precomp   0
Landing Zone   39760
Sector   63

I'm running the KA7-100 motherboard by the way.. with a 900 MHz AMD Athlon..

Is all that correct? I tried formatting tonight and it got 1% complete then
just went off on it's usual, "Trying to recover allocation unit  ##,###". It
started at 0 obviosuly, then made it's way all the way up to "Tying to
recover allocation unit  30,000+".. I've gathered I shouldn't get this
message so I terminated the format with a ctrl alt del..

Throw me some ideas on whats wrong if you can. Thanks a lot

Carl Barnhart

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