16 May
2006
16 May
'06
3:05 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
My Grid 1040 shows the following 3 DPT entries:
612 cylinders, 2 heads, 17 sectors/head
612 cylinders, 4 heads, 17 sectors/head
612 cylinders, 2 heads, 34 sectors/head
IOW, 20 MB, 40 MB and 40 MB.
Interesting. The information I found said 20MB, 40MB and 120MB, although
it was specifically referring to the 1520. I didn't try to dig around
the BIOS with debug to see what was there though.
Is is possible to load a driver to access other types
of disks? Maybe, but
Grid hard disk controllers are in a world of their own. At least they're
not at the standard port addresses.
So then I will have no luck trying to use any PC disk diagnostics
software? I tried something that I had in a box of old DOS disks and it
didn't work...
-chuck