danl@intelca.UUCP (Dan Lau) (04/15/86)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** I just bought a 10M hard disk for my IBM/PC, but after I formatted it, format reported a size of 10584064 bytes total available instead of the usual 10592256 that is reported on a PC/XT. What is wrong? The particulars are: IBM/PC with ROM BIOS dated when original PC/XT introduced IBM/PC-DOS V3.1 OMTI Hard disk controller 5510-3 CMI 5412 drive (asme drive as used by IBM, 306 cylinders, 4 heads) FDISK was used to install one DOS partition using the whole disk. No bad sectors were reported when doing the hard and soft format. Does anyone know why I am missing 16-sectors (2 clusters of 8K each). Thanks in advance. D. Lau (408) 987-7414 intelca!danl