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...;Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup at gmx.net> wrote: >Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> what exactly did we determine that GA-M55Plus-S3G is failing >> to support? > >It appears to be related to the choice of CHS addressing with >the FAT filesystem. This opens the door for misperceived factors >of heads per cylinder and sectors per heads. Assuming that is a correct analysis, one wonders who it is, exactly that would be doing the "misperceiving". The BIOS? >Aha, your fdisk -l results are posted now: > > ubcd.0 : Geometry: 22 heads, 21 sectors/track, 101...

Hi, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > what exactly did we determine that GA-M55Plus-S3G is failing > to support? It appears to be related to the choice of CHS addressing with the FAT filesystem. This opens the door for misperceived factors of heads per cylinder and sectors per heads. My current suspicion is that the partition end did not expose the effective factors in its end CHS address, so that the filesystem and the BIOS were not using the same factors. (Alternatively the FAT system could be in sync with the exposed f...

> > In message <BLU0-SMTP1383C5798F6C577E5FFF368BA40 at phx.gbl>, > Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: > > >> With respect to all of the actually important stuff however, I may have > >> missed it all, but I don't recall having read or seen an explanation of > >> what Ady & everybody else finally figured out about all this... > >