RE: big IBM harddisk
I think you're referring to IBM's program that allows you to control the DMA
mode of the drive. That won't have anything to do with getting the drive
detected by the BIOS.
Even if it can't talk to it, it should at least see it. Check cables, check
power, perhaps put the drive into another PC to check it. There are issues
with drives that large and usability... all three of my Abit motherboards
have had BIOS updates specifically to deal with drives that big and larger.
-----
Marc Wilson
mwilson@moonkingdom.net
mwilson@cts.com
http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson
-----Original Message-----
From: virtanen [mailto:hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 6:28 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: big IBM harddisk
Hi,
I purchased a new 40 G IBM harddisk.
My box is an old 100 MHz Pentium, with slot 5.
The problem is that the motherboard doesn't understand the harddisk at
all.
The IBM own (DOS) program, which is supposed to help to fix the problem
doesn't help. Even if I boot the box using that IBM setfix program, the
motherboard doesn't find the new harddisk at all.
My system is Debian 'Potato'.
Anybody knows, what to do?
Hannu Virtanen
hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: