What about tools like discwizard from ibm/seagate. Guess there have a
bios extension thingy which actually resides on the hard drive.

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:51:58PM +1000, Jon Biddell wrote:
> At 10:12 30/04/02 +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> >Jon Biddell wrote:
> >>
> >> The reason I ask is I fell into the trap of installing a pair of 40Gb
> >> Seagates ($168 odd each at the moment !!) and my bios would only 
> >recognise
> >> them as 32Gb.... An Ultra TX/2 ATA100 controller fixed that, although 
> >they
> >> are now hde and hdf...:-(
> >
> >Did you try updating your bios?
> 
> Not possible - this old MB has a Pentium 233MMX on it, and is at the latest 
> bios release.....
> 
> I refuse to spend money on a new machine until work recognises that I need 
> a notebook (and SWMBO recognises that I need a new machine !!)
> 
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