Greg, Once again I am in your stead. I do agree, from all the really odd stuff I see, that you are on the proper track. I will now plan yet another Viking Funeral; unless somebody wants this 10yr old Abit BX6r2 (@biosCR). LOL! Needed a new toy anyway..........But, I have had a bunch of fun chasing ghosts. Thank you for the share. Duncan
At 20:16 10/18/2008 -0500, you wrote:
The 440BX does not support LBA48, meaning it won't properly boot from drives >128GiB (or ~137 billion bytes). You can try making a smaller boot partition, but you'll likely need to either use a newer add-on controller with LBA48 support, or use a <128GB drive to install and boot from. If the drive supports it, you may also be able to truncate the capacity via jumper. Or, even better, stop wasting so much valuable time on absolutely ancient hardware. :) Latest MicroCenter flyer advertises a 1.6GHz dual-core, 945-based chipset, and 1GB of memory for $80. It's pure bottom feeder stuff, but surely you value your time at least that much... > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 7:23 PM > To: Hardware Group > Subject: [H] eide/pata > > When/why did pin 20 (across from the key) get plugged on the 34-pin > eide/pata cable? Also carefully watching the pin 1/red stripe > orientation. ;) > > The BX6r2 does have pin 20 in place at both EIDE m/b connectors. > I am now looking thru the cable pile for eide cables that do NOT > have a plug at pin 20. > It is down to pata cables, or, this old machine just can not deal > with the Seagate 160GB drive................ ? > Thank you, > Duncan
