John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> > I'm not sure if it will help with the boot problem, but I know
> > from learning the hard way that older bios (ie. back when the
> > pentium pro was popular) can't recognize disks larger than G.
> > Before that I think there was another size limit at about G.
> > Supposedly those on the market today are good through G (at
> > least thats what I infer from unicore's website, makers of Award
> > bios and Mr.Bios) If your comp is reading the drive at 8.5, it's
> > probably a pretty safe bet that you aren't going to be able to
> > access the rest of the drive until you upgrade your bios.
> >
> >
> Unfortunately, I believe this may be the case. I may just
> have to forgo the extra 2 Gigs for now, or re-partition it
> on a machine that can handle the excess drive
> space....although I could've sworn that SCSI wasn't
> bothered by the same limitations, especially when it has
> it's own BIOS...
> John
I've certainly never heard of SCSI being affected by the IDE BIOS
limitations...
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