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Subject: [SPARCbook] Re: New Harddrive for SPARCbook 3GX
From: Ken Hansen khansen () njcc ! com
Date: 1999-11-20 20:13:28
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From: Wes Hofmann <whofmann@yahoo.com>
To: SparcBook Owners List (E-mail) <sparcbook-owners@gsp.org>; SunHelp List
(E-mail) <sunhelp@sunhelp.org>
Date: Saturday, November 20, 1999 3:07 AM
Subject: New Harddrive for SPARCbook 3GX
>Hello all.
>
>Today, I received my new Hitachi 10.05GB IDE harddrive for my SPARCbook
3GX.
>However, the
>SPARCbook refuses to see it's actual size. Here is the disk information:
>
>size: 10.05GB
>cylinders: 16383
>heads: 16
>sectors: 63
Wes,
If you multiply cyl*heads*sectors*sector size (512 bytes)
you get about 8 gigabytes... your cylinder count needs to be
larger, more like 20000 (since 16383 yields 8 gig, see the
relationship?)...
HTH,
Ken
khansen@njcc.com
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