[SPARCbook] Re: New Harddrive for SPARCbook 3GX

[Ken Hansen]

-----Original Message-----
From: Wes Hofmann <whofmann at yahoo.com>
To: SparcBook Owners List (E-mail) <sparcbook-owners at gsp.org>; SunHelp List
(E-mail) <sunhelp at 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 at njcc.com