Hello, Roy.

Awhile back, we were talking here about your problem HDD.  I've been
meaning to write you about this, but waited long, and now I can't find
the old msgs.  Part of my delay was that I wanted to do some research,
but that is still aways off for me due to other obligations, and I want
to go ahead and at least get the subject out there for discussion and
maybe someone else can fill us in.

OK, from memory - - you had reported autodetected CHS for your 6.4GB or
so HDD.  I looked at those, compared to the CHS reported here on this
1.6GB  HDD

My 1.6GB autodetected at 787/64/63 , and multiplying those by 512 bytes
per sector yields  1.62 GB +/-.  BIR you reported yours had autodetected
at about the same, except for one of the parameters about double mine
(probably heads), and at 512 bytes per sector that would point to a HDD
of about 3.2GB. That is why I had asked you whether your HPFS partition
may have used 1024 bytes per sector for its formatting.

So anyway, I wonder if you have that 6+GB drive attached to a mainboard
which can properly recognize it.

In larger sizes, I think the autodetect chs x 512 falls apart, but no
time right now to look up and cite the reasons I'm saying that.

Info contributions eagerly sought.

- - -  JimH.

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