[NTLUG:Discuss] Update on the motherboard / HDD issue....

[Greg Edwards]

Douglas King wrote:
> 
> 
> THEN, I had to re-pin the drive itself.  Instead of pinning the drive as a
> "slave drive", pin it to "Cable select".  Now, for the best part....
> 
> Western Digital's web site, for a "high performance" drive, WDC1000BB drive
> specifications state "16383 cylinders, 16 "logical" heads, and 63
> sectors"...right?
> 
> WRONG!  The new motherboard finds the drive as 47885 cylinders, 16
> "logical" heads, and 255 sectors".
> 
> Now you get almost 100 gigs (97 gigs) to play with!
> 
> So...wonder who's right...and who is wrong?

I'm a little surprised about setting "Cable select".  What is your
primary drive set to?

On the cyl, hd, sector numbers I'm not surprised that the auto detect
didn't get the numbers exactly right.  Most of the time it won't. 
However, if you set the values manually you'll generally get a number
closer to the advertised size.  If I know the numbers I'll go ahead and
set them myself rather than let the BIOS interface try and figure it
out.

-- 
Greg Edwards
New Age Software, Inc.
http://www.nas-inet.com