[net.micro] Formatting 10M Hard Disk on PC

danl@intelca.UUCP (Dan Lau) (04/15/86)

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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