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To: <bobbitchin AT hempseed DOT com>
From: "Mark  F.  Warchol" <mwarchol AT flash DOT net>
CC: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 19:53:08 +000
Subject: Re: Help needed with invalaid partition table
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    Hello Bob,
On 1998-08-09 bobbitchin AT hempseed DOT com said:
 bo>I know that this is not right IF your BIOS has LBA mode for the HDD.
 bo>I curently have a 2 Gig DR-DOS partition that is on the master and
 bo>bootable.
  I checked them and the choices listed for either drive 0 or drive 1 are:
auto/ide, none and then a number from 1 upto 64.  This is in the fixed disk
of the bios and not memory.  I haven't a clue what the numbers 1 to 64 would
be used for as a setting of the hard-drive but I have used the setting of
auto/ide in both selections previously to changing the size of disk 0.

bo>Check you BIOS harddrive settings if it is somewhat recent it
 bo>should have an auto detect harddrives in the bios, run the
 bo>autodetect and you should get three choices being some thing like:
 bo>size cyls heads sect pcomp lzone MODE
 bo>xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx NORMAL
 bo>xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx LARGE
 bo>xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx LBA
 bo>Select the LBA mode, the BIOS will take care of the translations
 bo>and you will not need any type of "overlay" like Ontrack or
 bo>Maxblast, EZ-Drive, etc.
  No lba choice given, just the above, right now I have a 4.3-gb as disk 1
the slave and it is working fine, trying to get a larger one for disk 0-C.

bo>If you dont have an LBA mode then you will need to use an overlay
 bo>and you should then use the disk that came with your HDD to install
 bo>and partition the drive.
    No disk came with this drive have been using disk manager to partition
the drive and it has seemed to work OK.
                                            Any ideas please send along...

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