First post, by dionb
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Bashing my head against a wall here almost certainly missing something obvious...
I have a nice Quantum Fireball EX 10.2GB drive I want to use in one of two ~1999 era motherboards:
Tekram P5MVP-A4 (Via MVP3, with beta BIOS with K6+ support and supposedly up to 137GB HDD)
Tyan Tsunami S1846 (i440BX, with last BIOS 2.0.02, supports HDDs up to at least 32GB)
Desired OS: DOS 7.1 and/or Win98SE (i.e. same base, with FAT32 support)
So a 10GB HDD shouldn't be a problem...?
The HDD is detected by BIOS as 10263MB, with 19885 cylinders, 16 heads and 63 sectors. LBA & block mode are on.
I then partitioned it, both with DOS and linux fdisk, and gdisk. All three give me the desired partitions:
1 PRI DOS active 5726.3MB FAT32
2 LINUX SWAP 494.2MB (or "Non-DOS" in DOS fdisk)
3 LINUX 3561.3MB (or "Non-DOS" in DOS fdisk)
For good measure I used DOS fdisk and gdisk /mbr just in case something was messed up there. No change.
So if I do FORMAT C: it should format the 6GB partition? Nope. No matter what I do, it tells me "Formatting 9,781.73M". Which eventually claims to succeed, but of course cannot actually contain more than 6GB, leading to lost data as soon as anything is written to area over 6GB (and a failed Win98SE install).
What should I be doing to make DOS format recognize the partition created/and or shown by fdisk/gdisk?