23 Mar
2003
23 Mar
'03
4:28 p.m.
I used OnTrack to expand my old 486SX BBS system to its first (WD) 720MB
hard drive. Worked like a champ! Prior to that, I'd had 2 drives -- a
Maxtor @ 120MB, and a Seagate 340MB. Both fell inside the design specs.
Adding the 720MB drive on IDE2 (didn't even have a CD then...) was a pain
before discovering OnTrack.
Cheers!
Ed Tillman
Store Automation Tech Support Specialist
Valero Energy Corporation
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048
Email: edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com>
-----Original Message-----
From: Doc Shipley [mailto:doc@docsbox.net]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 10:59 AM
To: Classic Computers
Subject: Re: MS DOS and disk drives maybe OT
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Ron Hudson wrote:
Please forgive me if this is Off Topic...
I have a 1 gig drive in a 486. The BIOS sees the whole 1.2 gig (wd
caviar 21200)
and I have set the parameters from the plate on the drive into the
bios...
But FDISK insists that the drive is only 504 MB. Who ate half of my
disk drive??
Some BIOSen will only address 1024 cylinders, even if they "see" more.
OnTrack, Drive Rocket, EZDrive, any of the drive overlay programs will
get around that.
--
Doc Shipley (( And when thou hack'st her box, thou shalt
Austin, Texas )) lay that pipe with exceeding great vigour,
(( yea, even unto the screaming and clawing
doc(a)vaxen.net )) and biting. -- Cantrell