First post, by n1mr0d
As using FDISK on big disks takes ages i wonder if there's a version which skips the disk integrity checks. I'm running W95/DOS 7.1
with the IO.SYS patch from MS and BHDD 3.1 big HD patch from MDGx.
My old 486 only supported up to 500MB drives, but with the XTIDE universal bios the limit is decided by the file system. I've connected
my HD this way:
W83757F controller --> Marvell IDE-SATA bridge --> Seagate ST3500820AS 500GB SATA HD.
I've created one 32GB FAT32 partition, with a 32KB cluster size. Using a large cluster size is wasteful, but keeps the 486 from
choking. Even including the bridge, it is running quite snappy, no lag and such. Speedsys reports a max/avg seek time of 9.50/6.48ms and
a track-track seek time of 1.53 ms.
Creating a 32GB primary partition took a long time, i'm not even attempting creating the extended partition. Some sites falsely report that
using the/ACTOK switch skips the integrity check. I want to create the partitions in situ, with the XTIDE bios present, so i'm desperately looking
for a hacked FDISK version.
NOTE: the W83757F or XTIDE bios has problems with bridge chips from JMicron, so get the Marvell one
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