In this case the BIOS was recognizing the size of the drive, but it couldn't be partitioned past 500Mb +/- a few ... I wrote IBM and they say that the IDE equivalent of an LLF might just do the job.... and gave a URL for their site with the proper software to do it. l.d. P.S. I finally found who it was, and I got the message forwarded. ==== On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 05:25:49 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote: <snip> > Old BIOSes could only recognize slightly > 500 MB, or the first 1024 cylinders > of an IDE HDD. Any bootable partition, or any FAT partition, had to be entirely > contained within the first 1024 cylinders, but a nonbootable HPFS (OS/2) or > ext2fs (Linux) partition could exceed that limit. EIDE permitted the BIOS to > see up to 8 GB. HDDs > 1024 cylinders came with a disk manager such as Ontrack > that would permit the BIOS and DOS to see the entire HDD, but the disk manager > would not be needed with an EIDE controller or BIOS. -- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
