impett@super.super.org (Richard L Impett) (01/10/91)
Could someone enlighten me on the advantages and more importantly, the disadvantages of using Seagate's Disk Manager software? I have a Seagate 1150R disk which consists of 1072 cylinders, and 9 heads. The disk controller I use (WD 1006 RLL) is supposed to be able to handle 2048 cylinders, but it only seems to format to 1024. I understand this is because of DOS limits. I am using Compaq DOS 3.31. I am a little leary to use Disk Manager since it seems to use a "non-standard" method to fool DOS into thinking that there are less than 1024 cylinders. What kinds of incompatibilities (Norton, Spinrite, Windows, etc) can I expect to find if I use Disk Manager to attempt to use all of the cylinders of my drive? Rick Impett impett@super.org