Todd Walton wrote:
On 5/24/05, DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Memtest86 should only be run from floppy.
Or CD.
Sure, but not really as practical. Too much work! ;^)
motherboard BIOS. The drive can be "Clipped" to 32 GB
but that would certainly restrict the test to only about a
fifth of the drive capacity.
The problem could, by luck, be on that one-fifth...
When a BIOS can only handle a certain size of hard drive, what is
actually limiting it? Can it still access the entire drive,
physically, but only address a limited amount? Or is it that it will
only physically move the read head to certain orbits? Or... what?
The answer may be relevant to this problem.
-todd
Every HDD I've seen over 32 GB has a jumper which will "Clip" the drive
to a maximum accessible capacity of 32 GB. With this jumper set, the
remaining portion of the drive is not available, even with Linux.
Disclaimer: Obviously I haven't tried every drive under all OS's,
distributions or hardware combinations. But the above rule has held
under all conditions in my personal experience.
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Best Regards,
~DJA.
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