RE: big IBM harddisk
I think, if you can afford a 40G hard drive, and is still on a P100,
it's time to upgrade... (motherboard included)...
On 25 Jun 2001 09:06:46 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> 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.
>
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> Marc Wilson
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> -----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
>
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