On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Bill Squier wrote:

> Secondly, why is it that 
> 
> 1) On a label pasted on the top of the disk, it says 1416 cyls, 16 heads, 63 
> spt
> 1.5) www.wdc.com says the Caviar AC2700 has 1416/16/63
> 2) The BIOS says 1416/16/63
> 3) NetBSD says 1416/16/63 when it asks the drive
> 4) pfdisk claims 707/32/63
> 
> What's pfdisk know that the manufacturer doesn't?  Is the manufacturer lying 
> so that people that don't know about all this geometry nonsense don't type 
> something stupid into their CMOS setups?  Should I switch back to 1416/16/63 
> now that I know I have to leave a cyl free or set oc#2?

pfdisk's running under WinDont? I bet there's a drive-translating driver
in WnDon't which is changing the geometry on you. I found I had to run
pfdisk from a DOS boot floppy to get it to work right.

Take care,

Bill