Hi Slugs, The BIOS is all OK now and reading the larger HDD. The docs on the BIOS motherboard site said that the 2Mb BIOS upgrade accepts a larger HDD. The docs did not mention in the 1Mb upgrade that is fixes the large HDD problem. I only had a 1Mb BIOS not the 2Mb BIOS. So I flashed it anyway. Turned out to be the correct decision as the BIOS now recognises the larger HDD.
To answer Grant Parnell's question, I did try to manually set the BIOS without auto to every config it would take. Ie. manually putting in drive parameters etc. No go. If the hardware doesn't like it, the software never will. Ben. Grant Parnell wrote: > On 22 Nov 2001, Damien Elmes wrote: > > > > > Jeffrey Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > couldn't you just make it smaller in the bios and go and install linux on > > > it anyway > > > > > > like my laptop 12gb disk windoze only see's 8gb and it's only in the 1st > > > 2gb only anyway. Linux on the rest works fine. Linux dosen't care about > > > broken bios'es! Heck it dosen't even use it! > > > > my bios would freeze on POST with a 40gb drive until i upgraded it. > > fortunately i didn't need to increase the size of the chip in order to > > fit the updated version. > > Just as an excercise I'd like to find out if manually setting the BIOS in > advance to a non auto detect setting would fix this problem. If the > original poster could at least try this before doing the flash upgrade I'd > be pleased to hear from them but generally speaking an upgraded BIOS would > be nicer. > > -- > ---<GRiP>--- > Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz > Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 > Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
