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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by boeckmann, Aachen, Germany, 30.01.2024, 00:05
(edited by boeckmann on 30.01.2024, 00:16)

> > WARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 06: with calculated
> values
> > 988-1-63 instead of 61-254-63
> > C: HD1, Pri[1], CHS = 0-1-1, start= 0 MB, size = 486 MB
>
> Hm, looks like typical mismatch when disk is partitioned and formatted with
> different CHS than readed later...
Yes, deriving from the values in the screenshot, the CHS geometry under FreeDOS is detected as 16 heads, while it was formatted with a head count of of 255.

If the CF as a whole is less than 528 MB in size, 255 heads seems rather high, and 16 heads as reported by the XT-IDE BIOS is the "standard" one for such a disk size.

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