On the 22/05/96  10:01, Rod waffled to Dieter..

 Hello Rod,

 DM> I had one a week or so ago where a 1gig drive would not format over
 DM> 30 megs, no matter what I deleted and changed around in FDISK. In
 DM> the end, I zeroed out the first few sectors using a disk editing tool.
 
 DM> I assume that was caused by the LBA switch -

 RS> More likely the usual confused state the system can get into when the
 RS> geometry stuff in the first physical sector doesnt match what you are
 RS> currently using. Its not necessarily LBA, even just a different CHS
 RS> set which still have the same total number of sectors can do that.
 
 DM> of course I only get _partial_ information. The rest they don't tell
 RS> you.

 RS> Sounds more like someone fucked around with the drive params.

 Some BIOS's have an HDD auto sense, as opposed to "Auto detect and
 writing" the parameters into the BIOS.

 It was the AUTO sense for the HDD's each time the PC was powered
 on, and Win95 was installed with that option enabled, and Win95
 was giving some grief, and someone had come along and changed
 that setting to LBA, and then LARGE.

 Dieter
 

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