but the difference (and maybe the easy answer for David) is that your RAID card is providing it's own bios for the HDD.
David, maybe the easy way would be to get a cheap IDE RAID card or just a Promise ATA100 card and stick that in... it should recognize the drive in full capacity (and I believe Win2K SP2 and higher install CDs have the drivers for these cards in it's install). jeff e. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 6:11 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: W2K, Big IDE drives, and 1999 PC's I wonder if there's a BIOS upgrade for that machine? If not you might be forced to a more recent box...though I mounted just the other day an ATA Raid card in a Gateway 350 PII box, and it recognized an 80g partition (mirrored) no problem. -----Original Message----- From: Lum, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 1:22 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: W2K, Big IDE drives, and 1999 PC's I'm building a W2K Server that will be an SUS machine among many other things. I bought a WD 80 Gig IDE HDD, the PC I'm using (desktop) is a PII 500MHz, but the BIOS will only recognize to 32GB. WD supplies software to let the machine see all 80 Gig (EZBIOS). The trick is EZBIOS doesn't support boot from CD-ROM, so I created four W2K boot/setup disks and installed W2K server. The problem is my W2K server only sees 8GB (the biggest boot partition it can handle IIRC). Going into Disk Administrator it does not see (mounted, unmounted or otherwise) anything other than the 8GB, soo....any idea on how to make the other 72GB visible to W2K short of System Commander? I've gone through a couple iterations of setting this machine up, and one time I did get the character-mode setup program to see 80GB of "unknown/unusable partition", but it wouldn't let me delete or do anything else with it. I'm guessing if I skip the EZBIOS I can get W2K to see the 32GB that BIOS can handle. I'm probably overlooking something obvious, so if anyone has a "DUH" answer I'd appreciate it. Dave Lum - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Network Specialist - Textron Financial 503-675-5510 ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
