Old AMIBIOS and largs harddrivs(10 GB)

[Fred J]

Does anyone have any experience of putting a 10 GBor larger hard drive in an
old non-name PC(P133) fitted with AMIBIOS 1.00.03.CB0, will it work? The
computer is currently running a 1 GB drive fine, so the old 540 MB limit is
obviously not there, but there is no information in the bios that indicates
that the driver supports LBA mode? Only track and sectors(ugh!). Any
suggestions?

/ Fred J

[stev...@delphi.com]

Fred,

You have an Intel Advanced/EV motherboard: http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/AdvancedEV/

With the latest BIOS update, this board will support IDE drive sizes up to 8.4 GB.

Here are couple options, if you want to use drives larger than 8.4 GB:

Use the free overlay software provided by the drive manufacturer. This is free, but can hurt performance and stability.

Buy a BIOSed hard drive controller card. The Promise Ultra33 controller would support drives larger than 8.4 GB, and would also support the faster ATA33 drive modes. The newer Promise Ultra66 and Ultra100 cards require PCI 2.1 compliance, and may not be work on your motherboard. The Advanced/EV is compliant with PCI 2.0.

Promise: http://www.promise.com

[ata...@my-deja.com]

You did not mention whether 16bit old W95 or 32 bit W95/98 access might
change the 1st partition limit? Could you enlighten us?

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[Fred J]

In this case the system software is MS win98 release B.

/ Fred J

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