29 Jul
2003
29 Jul
'03
8:12 p.m.
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, TeoZ wrote:
From: "Doc" <doc(a)mdrconsult.com>
True, and sometimes whats printed on the drive does not match what the
drive reports to the BIOS. Of course, sometimes people would use settings
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
The older drives have the settings printed on the top of the drive cyl
heads sectors etc That might be the problem. The drive may have
been formatted under
incorrect parameters. If this is the case, can the parameters be
ascertained somehow?
I'd try Spinrite on it. I don't recall offhand if it will determine
effective geometry, but it would be the next most likely of any disk
tool I've ever used.
First most likely would be GNU/Linux sfdisk. Read the man page
*carefully* first. from a book of hard drive settings, especially when the
drive was already
installed. The settings printed in such a book don't always
match whats
printed on the drive or what the drive reports to the BIOS.
Yet another benefit of SCSI...
-Toth