From: Alan Millar (amillar@netcom.com)
Date: 02/09/93 

From: amillar@netcom.com (Alan Millar)
Subject: MFM hd > 1024 cyls?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 03:25:39 GMT

I have a Maxtor XT-2190 hard drive which has 1223 cylinders.
Running fdisk from the SLS 0.99p2 release gives a warning about
drives over 1023 cyls that some software may not be compatible.

Can anyone tell me any specifics about what in Linux may have
problems?

I know of one Dos program that doesn't like more than 1023 cyls,
which is the DiskManager low-level format program. Does anyone
know of any low-level format software that I can use to format
the whole drive? Right now I'm losing out on about 30 megs. Thanks.

- Alan 

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