Microsoft KB Archive/99185

= Micropolis 1664 Drives Can't Recognize >1024 Cylinders =

Article ID: 99185

Article Last Modified on 9/30/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft LAN Manager 2.1 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft LAN Manager 2.1a
 * Microsoft LAN Manager 2.2 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q99185



SUMMARY
The Micropolis 1664 drive cannot recognize more than 1024 cylinders on the boot drive of a server disk.



CAUSE
PC BIOS limitations prevent LAN Manager from recognizing more than 1024 cylinders on the boot drive of a server disk. The Micropolis 1664 drive does its own cylinder translation and it conflicts with LAN Manager's inability to handle disks with more than 1024 cylinders.



RESOLUTION
You can get Micropolis 1664 drives to work with LAN Manager by formatting the drive so that:


 * sector mapping is set to 63
 * 1024 cylinder truncation is turned OFF
 * track mapping is set to NO

Additional query words: 2.10 2.10a 2.20 2.2 2.1 2.1a

Keywords: kbnetwork KB99185

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