How Screwed up can the formatting of an IDE disk get ?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Al Dykes
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Folkert Rienstra said:
Btw, some bioses *do* /shortstroke/ the drive to the capacity set by CMOS
in certain cases which however can be reset by a new SET MAX ADDRESS.
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Which one? Sounds incredibly stupid.
 
Eric Gisin said:
Which one?
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The ones that Zvi Netiv describes as 'BIOS pulling'.
Unfortunately he does appear to use that term for 2 different phenomena:
Either using (pulling) the MBR contents as manual setting in CMOS and-or using/
saving Cmos values as a fixed capacity setting on the drive's identification sector.
Sounds incredibly stupid.
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Like any bios limitation except for 528MB, 8GB and 137GB isn't a complete ****up?
 
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