Strange things with my hard drive

Victor Tsaran tsar at sylaba.poznan.pl
Mon Feb 25 09:41:41 EST 2002


No, I ran a 20 GB drive on this machine.
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: Strange things with my hard drive


> Since he's building a new machine, his bios probably has a drive limit way
over 8 gb.
> Greg
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:19:40AM -0500, Pete wrote:
> >
> >   Can you check your bios/cmos settings?  Some bioses require cdrom
drives
> > to be set to none and others have a cdrom selection while yet other
bioses
> > will work whith auto or none set for the cdrom.  If the hard drive is
les
> > than (8 gig? the bioses limit? or maybe 2 or 4 gig limit?) set up the
hard
> > drive whith the C H S values in cmos.  Usually setting the P I O  and
the  U
> > D M A  modes to auto will work.  There may be a couple of settings like
L B
> > A (larg block addressing) or I think another one called just large mode.
If
> > your lucky you can set this one to auto. More likely there either an
on/off
> > or check box to check.  I geus what I am really trying to say is check
the
> > settings in bios/cmos for the hard drive you are trying to install.
> > Depending on what hard drive you have there may be two jumpers to set.
One
> > for master / slave etc and another one for cylinder limitation.  The
> > cylinder limitation for example: if you have a bios/cmos whith an 8 gig
> > limit and your hard drive is 10 gig, you would set both master and
cylinder
> > limitation jumpers.  Some computers wont boot unless the cylinder limit
> > jumper is set to occomidate the limit in bios/cmos most I have seen will
> > boot any way so not booting could tell you some thing.  Usually no
jumpers
> > on the cdrom meens slave. Also most cdrom and hard drives have jumpers
for:
> > master, slave and cable select.  You may have a system whith cable
select,
> > in which case set all drives to cable select (CS).  The cable select,
this
> > setting detirmines by possission which drive is master and which one is
> > slave.  How new are the hard drive and cdrom and how old is the
motherboard?
> >   Pete
> >
> > > Hell, listers!
> > > I know some of you, especially Kerry, are big hardware specialists.
Hope
> > you
> > > will be able to advise something for me this time as well.
> > > I am putting together a new machine. Whenever I connect the hard drive
to
> > > the IDE0 and CDROM to IDE1, both on master, I get "hard disk
failed...",
> > but
> > > CDROM is found. However, if I connect hard drive to IDE1 and CDROM to
> > IDE0,
> > > both to master, then both are recognized fine. Why is this hapenning?
I
> > > tried these combinations several times, and the same result comes out.
> > > Can you suggest something?
> > > Victor
> >
> >
> >
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