On (29 Jun 95) Rod Speed wrote to Keith Richardson...



KR> why some time ago there was a guy reckoning that

KR> the large ide drives could present more than 16

KR> heads, what a fuckwit, wouldn't budge from it either.



 RS> Poor old Keef, STILL hasnt noticed that there are drives out there

              

still using that one rod? such a pity that you picked on a name that has

been used in my family as a term of endearment for years. you really

aren't doing too well lately are you (:



 RS> that manage >528MB without the use of LBA or a driver. Poor old Keef.

 RS> Try having a look at some of the modern motherboards which have a

 RS> LARGE option as well as an LBA option Keef. You also see it called ECHS.



 RS> They do that by translating the 1024 cylinders in

 RS> commands over the cable into 16 heads as far as DOS is

 RS> concerned, WITHOUT using LBA that poor old Keef proclaimed was the

 RS> only way coz thats all he could work out from ATA-2. Pathetic really.



i don't seem to remember  mentioning lba as the only way of doing it

anywhere rod, i do seem to remember saying that ata-2 drives could not

present more than 16 heads, and that the translation was done either on

the motherboard, or ide adaptor board. this seems to be exactly what you

are saying now,  a bit of a change from your original stand that the

**drive** could present more than 16 heads. still had no luck finding

such drives then?



 RS> You really are fucking thick arent you Keef ?  Presumably that explains

 RS> why you manage to still get lumbered with shift work after all this time.



you really are out of touch with the world of professional computing

aren't you rod? in the purges of the last few years, the thickies went

in the second wave, right after the middle managers. i work shift when

the need arises, i am democratic enough not to pull rank, and force the

unfortunates who have to do it most of the time to give up even more of

their lives. with your attitude to the wonts of others cant see you

doing that somehow (:



i do notice that you have deleted the bit about the fuckwit who reckoned

that every pc comes with dos and windows, kind of uncharacteristic for

you, i wonder why that could be  (:



corse, i didn't even get round to the character that reckoned that it is

impossible to do a low level format on embedded servo drives, showed

that one to a few people that make their living out of such things,

produced much hilarity, that a "disk expert" had such little knowledge

of how the things actually work. i suppose that it is much easier to

understand the jumper settings than the basic principles.



                        Keith





... Or make him towel-boy in the deviant sex-offenders wing.



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