James Byrnes wrote to Will Honea on 04-26-1998
JB> 
JB> Dumb question time.  Part of your recomendation was to put
JB> parameters on the IBM1S506.ADD driver.  When I tried I got an
JB> "invalid parameter" message on bootup.  I looked at the help for it
JB> and it shows 4 slots for parameters but you and the help only
JB> mentioned cyl/hd/sec.  Whats the fourth parameter supposed to be and
JB> are they really supposed to be in parens (n,n,n,n)?  Just curious
JB> for future reference. 
Help was just a little bit nebulous.....  Actually, the fourth parm.
is for the write precomp cylinder.  This was used by older MFM/RLL
drives and does not apply to IDE.
What you describe with the mapping is fairly common - autodetect gives
you one thing, then the drive description on the setup page shows
something else, especially if you allow the AUTO mode.  I usually find
one that works, then change if to USER rather than AUTO so that the
BIOS doesn't try to 'help' me.  Older AMI BIOS's were bad about this.
Will Honea 
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