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From: Charles Hallenbeck <2ndsight AT taconic DOT net>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 18:34:51 +0400
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Subject: hard disk problem fixed itself


Hi folks,
I recently posted about a fixed disk size problem -- fdisk gave conflicting
information about the capacity of a second fixed disk on my system. Mark
Aitchison helped me figure out the discrepancy -- my bios said the disk had
32 heads, but it somehow had been configured with only 16.
I used fdisk to delete the remaining DOS partition on the disk, freeing up
all the space, and it suddenly forgot all about the 16 head parameter,
showed me all the true space as available, and then it partitioned and
formatted correctly.

Chuck
Second Sight Software