[Coco] OSK HD Formatting help needed
Paul Fitch
pfitchjr at bellsouth.net
Sun Sep 9 16:32:22 EDT 2007
I want to format the HD that I got with my AT306 with a 3-gig partition, and
a 1-gig partition. Under OSK, for my purposes, I don't need more than this.
And, also, under OSk V3.0, I've read that RBF has some problems when you
approach the 4-gig barrier.
Could someone help me with the DMODE parameters to do this? The HD has the
following information on it:
Western Digital WD400
WD Caviar
Enhanced IDE HD
LBA: 78165360
MDL: WD400BB-00AUA1
It is a 40-gig IDE drive.
The WD specs for this drive state the following:
# of actual platters = 2
# of heads = 4
#bytes/sector = 512
Why 3 +1? Well, once the rest of the hardware arrives, I'm going to do the
same thing to the 4-gig CF card I've got. Then I will pull the 40-gig drive
and run totally from CF. No heat, no noise, less power, less weight and
equivalent performance.
More information about the Coco
mailing list