annala@neuro.usc.edu (A J Annala) (02/03/90)
I am trying to add a large format Bell Technologies "Bell B86" hard disk drive to a vintage IBM PC/AT. The Bell 86 is actually made by Toshiba & appears to have the following format parameters: Cylinders=830 Heads=10 Sectors=17 Precomp=415 Total_Bytes=72,155,648 I can't even find Bell Technologies (they were in Freemont CA at one time ... but they appear to have been spun off by AT&T ... and may have moved to someplace in oregon under another name). Could some kind soul out in netland email me some advice about what DISK TYPE to specify in the PCAT basic diagnostic setup program and tell me how to partition and format as much of this disk as possible. I have pc dos 3.3 or ms dos 4.01 available to install and format this disk. I understand ms dos 4.01 supports large format disks. Does pc dos 3.3 provide similar support? Is there some pd partition editing program available to set up a large partition. Subsidiary questions: o Does anyone have a complete table of PC/AT DISK TYPE setup parameters? o How do you partition this disk into one large usable partition? It does not have to be a bootable partition ... I am installing the large disk as drive D ... drive C is an st2038 ... Thanks, AJ