Message-Id:	<3.0.5.32.19980809102505.007afce0@mustafa.hempseed.com>
Date:	Sun, 09 Aug 1998 10:25:05 -0700
To:	"Mark F. Warchol" <mwarchol AT flash DOT net>
From:	Robert Sears <bobbitchin AT hempseed DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Help needed with invalaid partition table
Cc:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<199808091352.IAA29582@endeavor.flash.net>
Mime-Version:	1.0

I know that this is not right IF your BIOS has LBA mode for the HDD. I
curently have a 2 Gig DR-DOS partition that is on the master and bootable.

Check you BIOS harddrive settings if it is somewhat recent it should have
an auto detect harddrives in the bios, run the autodetect and you should
get three choices being some thing like:

size	cyls	heads	sect	pcomp	lzone	MODE
xxx	xxx	xxx	xxx	xxx	xxx	NORMAL
xxx	xxx	xxx	xxx	xxx	xxx	LARGE
xxx	xxx	xxx	xxx	xxx	xxx	LBA

Select the LBA mode, the BIOS will take care of the translations and you
will not need any type of "overlay" like Ontrack or Maxblast, EZ-Drive, etc.

If you dont have an LBA mode then you will need to use an overlay and you
should then use the disk that came with your HDD to install and partition
the drive.

At 09:45 AM 8/9/98 +000, you wrote:
>
>    Hello All,
>    Regarding my problem installing a new master hard-drive another list
>indicated to me that (dos)-Drdos wouldn't accept a drive as master larger
>than #512-M and that dos in general has this problem/limitation, and that it
>wouldn't make a difference if I partation the drive smaller because the
>entire drive wuld be seen beforehand as the nonpartationed size.  They did
>suggest that their is software to help with this but #512 wuld be the limit
>without software.
>    Is this correct and wuldn't that mean that no drive bigger than #512-M
>couldn't be useed as the master without software?
>    Please inform me!
>      Thanks,
>       Mark
>
>

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