Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:48:02 -0400
From: "Michael Hodish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: not lib, but you guys would know the answer, if anybody would

Sorry to be off topic, but this is the kind of issue that you guys always
know the answer to, on a larger scale:

I have a Dell desktop, its bios doesn't make nice with drives over 120 Gb.
No ROM update is available.

I want to add a 250 Gb drive.  The manufacturer of  the drive says to use ez
bios, although the version they have available gives an error when I use it,
as directed, to make a bootable floppy - " Disk error on A: drive: DMA
crosses 64k boundary"  I have no clue of what this is trying to tell me.

First of all, does anyone know what this means.

Second, if I connect the drive using a usb2 drive enclosure (this would
actually be advantagous...the drive is for archiving images of variious
other machines...it would be good to be able to take it off site), does that
bypass the bios' limitation?

System is Dell Dimension 8200  Bios version A08

XP pro 5.1.2600, SP1

P4 2.4

TIA

Mike Hodish









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