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> Why don't you try formatting the first partition after 1024 or 2048 bytes
> from the beginning?
> In theory it is possible to do so. It's just an experiment, but maybe it
> works.

I can shrink it with PQMagic but what do you think this will accomplish?
I have walled off bad areas on other drives, but I think only the zero 
track is the problem here.


> What really slows down is if one of the HDs is capable of LBA and the other
> doesn't (very old HDs).
> Or in case of other differences like this.
What size is not capable of LBA?

> > My 100GB won't work as slave.  At least not on IDE0.
>
> The drive was given to me as secondary slave (with XP booting from primary
> > slave - the jumpers were all mixed up, one as CS, one on some jumper that
> > was not even listed.)
>
> A 100GB HD is not set to "slave" without a good reason.
> Maybe it was defective a long time before the donation, and that was an
> effort to avoid discarding it.

It also had no files on it.  The owner was having some troubles with 
software and he had plugged a few other things together wrong.  (USB was 
plugged into Com2...)

> > > This way it's supposed not to slow down the CD neither the HDs.
> > I will live with a floppy disk boot for a while and then maybe try this as
> > hdc with a different hda that boots.  I don't know if the CD would slow
> > down the hard drive.
>
> CDs have a hibrid structure (IDE / SCSI) and this way they can slow down a
> high performance HD installed on the same IDE cable.

I will not mix them then.  I can boot from floppy disk.

Broken equipment is more educational

> Teixeira

Sindi

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