Strange things with my hard drive

[Gregory Nowak]

You said in a previous post that the board was 4 years old. What's the highest hd capacity that this board's bios supports?
Greg


On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:41:41PM +0100, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> 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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