Re: Install: Getting beyond 2GB on old IDE
Dude, actually this is an EIDE box. 540mb was origial IDE. It seems
that EIDE had a 2.0? wall. UDMA EIDE I'm not sure of the limit...
However, the bus it the same so you can use larger drives on the old
systems. But in dos-land you've got to get a special driver (included
from maxtor).
If figured that if they could get around it in software, so could we...
BIOS says 8/2/95
Ideas?
Thanx -- Greg.
Shaleh wrote:
>
> Greg, what year is the BIOS? Some BIOS' only support 540mb, or 1.6gb, or
> others.
>
> On 27-Nov-98 Greg Vence wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I've got an old slug for fs work. Its got a Maxtor 8GB drive. When I
> > boot the system it hangs unless I use there jumper.
> >
> > cyl, Heads, Sectors
> > Looks like 4092, 16, 63
> > Should be 16351, 16, 63
> >
> > I thougth using cfdisk to tell it the truth would work but it doesn't
> > just giving error that it couldn't read the disk.
> >
> > How / when in install do I get the full 8GB to work with. I'd really
> > like to get do it before the dselect.
>
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