Help with >8GB drives required please
Woodster
motherboard. I have the latest BIOS revision. The BIOS succesfully detects
the HDD as follows:
Size Cyl Heads Sectors Type
13013 1582 255 63 LBA
Saving these settings, rebooting and going back into CMOS setup shows that they
have been saved succesfully. Reboting and allowing the system to start shows
the Drive as being LBA, UDMA 2, 4228MB when restarting and the settings are
displayed on the screen. Rebooting again and checking the CMOS shows that the
settings have been reset to:
Cyl Head Sectors Type
1024 128 63 LBA
I am aware that LBA mode is typically only to support op to 8GB drives but I
know of others with 10GB IDE drives set up and running sucessfully in LBA
mode.
Has anyone come across this sort of problem before, and if so, how can I go
about fixing it to access the full capacity of the hard drive.
For the record, I have an AMD K6-2 300MHz CPU but I am pretty sure this is not
the cause of the problem.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Sean Hannan
wood...@spamfree.wantree.com.au
(Remove spamfree. from the above email address)
Steve Hodges
I've been trying to set up NT on one of these and it just keeps dying.
NT installs, reboots, and doesn't even get as far as the boot manager.
Woodster wrote:
>
> I am trying to set up a new Quantum 13.0GB IDE drive...
> I am aware that LBA mode is typically only to support op to 8GB drives but I
> know of others with 10GB IDE drives set up and running sucessfully in LBA
> mode.
I wasn't aware of this.
> For the record, I have an AMD K6-2 300MHz CPU but I am pretty sure this is not
> the cause of the problem.
Also fails with P II 450, so I doubt the processor has anything to do
with it.
Steve
Jurgen Steinert
>
>NT installs, reboots, and doesn't even get as far as the boot manager.
To use a IDE drive greater than 8GB with Windows NT, you need to
update the mass device driver it uses. Update, along with full
instructions are available from MS page, or if you can't find it, I
can email it to you.
JS
Zac
news:7ml1lj$pih$1...@centipede.wantree.com.au...
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I had this problem too - Luckily JC sorted it out :)
You basically need to use SP4's IDE driver. If you do a search on
support.microsoft.com, it will tell you exactly how to do it. It involves
booting off the setup disks and specifying custom device (not using NT4's
default ATAPI controller)
Martin Livings
:> I had this problem too - Luckily JC sorted it out :)
: I never realised the Son of God was also Microsoft Certified.
It's a well known fact. My great-uncle Robert had a near-death
experience, and actually found himself in heaven. He was greeted by a
bunch of dead relatives, one of whom took him for a tour of the place.
While walking along pointing out famous people, Bob spotted Bill Gates.
"Hey, that's Bill Gates, I didn't know he'd died" he said to his
great-great-great-grandfather Allan, the tour guide. "No, that's God",
Allan replied. "Are you sure?" Box asked incredulously, looking very
closely. "Oh, positive, it's God. He just THINKS he's Bill Gates."
yt MJL99
Anthony Shipley
>It's a well known fact. My great-uncle Robert had a near-death
>experience, and actually found himself in heaven. He was greeted by a
>bunch of dead relatives, one of whom took him for a tour of the place.
>While walking along pointing out famous people, Bob spotted Bill Gates.
>"Hey, that's Bill Gates, I didn't know he'd died" he said to his
>great-great-great-grandfather Allan, the tour guide. "No, that's God",
>Allan replied. "Are you sure?" Box asked incredulously, looking very
>closely. "Oh, positive, it's God. He just THINKS he's Bill Gates."
Amazing what you can find in 2 minutes seaching the web :-p
anthony shipley
xpct th nxpctd
Sean Hannan
>
>support.microsoft.com, it will tell you exactly how to do it. It involves
>booting off the setup disks and specifying custom device (not using NT4's
>default ATAPI controller)
Any idea on how to access the drive fully without NT? Unfortunately I need Win
9x for compatibility with certain programs.
Regards
Woodster
Zac
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Oh, you're *not* using NT ? :)
Very odd then if it's not working - are you using 98 or 95? If 98, make sure
FAT32 is enabled and make sure FDISK has allocated the whole dang partition
as a Primary.
Zac
Sean Hannan
>FAT32 is enabled and make sure FDISK has allocated the whole dang partition
>as a Primary.
OK - Got it going now. Got the absolute latest BIOS update which hadn't even
made the Epox web site yet and is only a week old and that seemed to fix it.
FDISK can now recognise and allocate all of the 13GB drive. Well, I can say
one thing for Epox - their support is pretty good! Only a 12 hr turn around
from my original email to them.
Thanks anyway Zac
Woodster
P.S.
While I've got you there, What are the prices on
TNT2
Voodoo3
Matrox G400 MAX (Not sure about the MAX part)
Any recommendations?