Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take
From: "Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>
>I recently had the displeasure of finding out all about limits with disk
>size. I purchased a 10.1GB IDE disk. Here's the lowdown, gleaned from
> [ ... deleted material ...]
>I was never able to get my PC (a 3 year old pentium) to access more than
>8.4GB. Even that was only after flashing my ROM to the latest version. [...]
I've had countless frustrating experiences in trying to mix and match
different generations of IDE devices and adapters with a variety of
operating systems. New IDE drives and old IDE adapters just do not go
together. Flashing the BIOS does sometimes help, but eventually they stop
updating the BIOS for your mboard. I'd advise against trying to mix and
match different IDE generations. This is in direct contrast to SCSI.
If you really need an old mboard and a new IDE disc drive to work
together, you could try a recently purchased IDE expansion card. These are
hard to find, but should get the job done along with drive geometry
remapping software (Ontrack, EZ-drive, etc....). But generally I'd avoid
this option.
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Andrew Hagen
awh@ibm.net
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