In article <1992Mar24.223607.27070@afterlife.ncsc.mil> aegoldm@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Arthur Goldman) writes:
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>Dilemma: I have a maxtor 600 MB drive with Ultrastor 12F esdi ctrlr.
>The controller offers me track mapping, which, when invoked, fools
>(DOS) into thinking it only has 1024 cyl (increases sectors/trk
>accordingly).

If the track-mapping is in the controller and not in some bios-routines,
linux should be able to run with it: indeed it happens automatically for
most machines I've heard of. Are you 100% sure linux can't use it
already?

/If/ linux seems unable to use the mapping-feature, there is still some
hope.  I've left in the old code that hardcoded the harddisk parameters
instead of reading them from the BIOS, and by editing the config.h file
you can hardcode linux to think you have a specific number of sectors/
heads/tracks.  Check out linux/config.h: the HD_TYPE macro. This isn't
guaranteed to help your problems, but it's worth a try.

                        Linus