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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 30.01.2024, 22:21

> 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.

If I remember well there should exist some ATA command to enforce CHS geometry on LBA capable drives. Probably Linux/hdparam can play with this too:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/629411/is...ce-a-certain-chs-drive-geometry-in-modern-linux

But if the whole bootchain would use LBA (XTIDE? LBA MBR, LBA DBR, LBA partition...) then this problem shouldn't occur.

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• Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot - bocke, 28.01.2024, 18:34 (Users)
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