First post, by Jed118
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OK so I've got my 486DLC running ("running") again and I am preparing for my SCSI2SD to arrive. In the meantime, I'm playing around with a Seagate ST5850A that's in there now and while I can see the BIOS recognizes the drive as an 815Mb drive, DOS simply won't do it. I have purchased a 512 Mb CF card for this particular computer (despite my issues with CF, I will persevere as I do want to remove moving bits from this machine as much as can be allowed) so that's not really an issue, but I'm perplexed as to why DOS sees it as nothing more than a 528Mb drive.
This is the largest, non SCSI drive that I've put in there (the outgoing drive was an IDE Quantum 540Mb - 528Mb usable) but the same ST5850A drive is seen by my 486 (in DOS, as well as BIOS) as a proper 850Mb unit. I haven't compared the CHS settings between the two machines in BIOS as of yet, however, what is the deal here? IIRC if the BIOS can recognize the drive using the proper CHS parameters and reports its size correctly, why is DOS having an issue with it? I BIOS low-leveled the drive (because it had OnTrack on it) and reformatted it, and it still sees it as 528Mb in the M321 386.
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