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To: Dave Chanoux who wrote (11477)	3/18/1998 6:14:00 PM
From: Spots	of 12298

The labels lie on those old Caviars because the drive lies to the bios so the bios won't know that the drive has more physical cylinders than it can handle. Do the drive numbers begin with 3 (like 30340 or some such)? If so, they are three-platter technology. If you look at some of the later disks, even the 2-platter ones, the label will still tell you 12 heads. This isn't false advertising (why should you care?): The label lies because it has to tell you the number to enter into the user-configured disk settings in the bios (Type 47 as I recall). anything over about 100 MB or so is Type 47 for these old clunkers. One platter would be about the minimum, I'd reckon <ggg>.

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