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> Is it only for ATA/IDE disks ?
> Does it depend on the size of the disks ?

Only for the internal IDE controller.  The internal IDE controller on
pc98 uses the fixed geometry which is 8 heads and 17 sectors.  If the
size of the disk is larger than 4.2GB (65535C x 8H x 17S x 512B), a
different geometry depend on the disk is used.


> Does it also affect SCSI disks ?

No.

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TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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