wmam@sphinx.UUCP (02/06/87)
O.K. - I am trying to find out how to use the last 122 cylinders on my ST4051 (it is running on an Everex controller) in my AT compatible. They are there, they are formattable (with a low level formatting program I have) but fdisk just pretends they don't exist. Now, it is only a "mere" 5.5 meg. but I want to be able to use every little bit. What is MOST frustrating is that when I first got the thing it WAS using all 977 cylinders (thus it can be done) but I eventually had to re-format the drive (low level, and dos-level). That is when I lost them. Any replies? I would appreciate any input. If anything significant is learned, I will summarize and post it for everyone's enjoyment. Thanks in advance! -- Tony Mason >>>>>>>>>>>>>> University of Chicago uucp: ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!wmam, ...ihnp4!gargoyle!euler!tony mailnet: m1.spokane@UChicago.Mailnet bitnet: wmam%sphinx@UChicago.Bitnet ARPA: m1.spokane%UChicago.Mailnet@MIT-Multics.ARPA
andy@thelink.UUCP (02/08/87)
It sounds like your BIOS doesn't support a drive type that has 977
cylinders and 4 heads, as the 4051 does. What's more, DOS doesn't
support a logical drive size of more than 32MB. The solution:
Use SpeedStor. Seagate began to ship this program after a bunch
of complaints about not being about to use the whole drive. It
is also available direct from the software developers, but I don't
remember the name. SpeedStor allows you to partition to drive into
two logical drives, and lets you effectively ignore the BIOS drive
types.
Andy Dustman ({ihnp4!alpha iuvax!ndmath}!ack!andy)