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This item is from the Yet Another
Enhanced IDE/Fast-ATA/ATA-2 FAQ, by John Wehman and Peter den
Haan with numerous contributions by others. (v1.92).
08.04. My 4GB+ drive has problems in MSDOS 6.22 or below.
Some BIOSes assign a drive of over 8192 cylinders a translated
geometry with 256 heads. MSDOS 6.22 and below fail when they try to
access the last head.
If your BIOS allows a user definable drive type, use a geometry with
15 heads and 16/15 times the original number of cylinders, rounded
down. Thanks to universal translation you can always do this. Remember
to write down the geometry somewhere so that you can reproduce it if
necessary! If no user definable drive type is possible, there's little
you can do about this except upgrade to Win95.
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