RE: The WHY's (RE: ide drive w/dma ... system crash)

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Tue, 11 May 1999 17:17:36 -0700 (PDT)

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On Wed, 12 May 1999, Guest section DW wrote:
> Oh really? So the fact BIOS returns 16383,16,63 instead of 19650,16,63 is
> not a BIOS bug?
> No, it is the ATA standard.

Another BIOS returns 33483/16/63. Is this part of the standard too?
When does it return 16383/16/63 and when does it return larger Cylinders?

-Dan

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