Anthony J. Albert wrote:
>My source (Pocket PCRef, from Sequoia Publishing - excellent
>book), lists it as "MFM, 71MB formatted". Checking, I find that
>2^20*71 = 74.4 million bytes, 2^20*68 = 71.3 million bytes. So I'm
>not sure about the discrepancy that the sizes show, except that
>perhaps when it was last formatted, a size that was closest to the
>actual parameters (without being over) was chosen from the default
>types?
Yes, that's probably it. I've found one that matches that close enough
(using trial and error in the BIOS and HDP (thanks Bjorn) to see how bad
the choice is <g>).
>Is there a user-definable type available in the BIOS setup?
A PS/2 (atleast mine) doesn't use the standard BIOS HD types. And sadly
enough there's no user type available either :(
I have tested all the types from 29 (all bellow seem to be the same) to 75,
only 76 - 231 left :/
//Bernie
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