Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:45:02 -0700 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] not lib, but you guys would know the answer, if anybody would
An external USB enclosure would probably be your best bet - you'll solve two problems at once. It'll get around the BIOS limitation *and* you'll get around a second problem that you're yet to run into and that is 48 bit LBA which is disabled by default ... Win2k and XP still default to 32 bit LBA (which cuts out for drives over 137GB) attached to motherboard ATAPI controllers and requires a reg key change to enable 48 bit LBA (see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013 ). Using an external USB case gets around this (I've tested it with a number of different brands of USB and/or Firewire to IDE cases) presumably because the drive isn't ATAPI anymore. How do I know this? I spent hours trying to fix this with my new 200GB drive, thinking I had a motherboard problem! Gawd I hate it how Microsoft does these things sometimes ... heh - Raymond Quoting Michael Hodish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > ************************************************************** > http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list > http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives > > -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- > Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be > addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text > on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe > --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ > Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest > ************************************************************** > > ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
