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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 14:59:16 +1200 (NZST)
From: Eric Gillespie <viking AT flying-brick DOT caverock DOT net DOT nz>
To: Charles Hallenbeck <2ndsight AT taconic DOT net>
cc: opendos-support AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: hard disk problem fixed itself
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On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

: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 thought that might have been the case - Mark has (probably, anyway) quite a
bit of experience in things like that ... how did you get the BIOS to believe
it could deal with more than 16 heads?  I thought 16 was a hard coded limit?  

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