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 PCBUILD maintains many useful files for download on our web site - visit our download page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html