Hi Stephen,
On Sunday 05 June 2005 10:10 pm, you wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 21:27:16 +0100, Derrick wrote:
> >Is the HDD a brand new one or used? I bet its a used one !
>
> On Sunday 05 June 2005 8:54 pm, I wrote:
> >> Thanks for your helpful suggestions, Jim. I was able to boot to
> >> the floppy when no HD or CD were present.
>
> I'm trying to replace an old dead drive in an old PII with a new
> drive but things aren't cooperating. I'm at the end of my patience
> and so I will return the system in the same condition it was
> received. In place of reimbursing the cost of the new HD (which was
> purchased at my suggestion) I'll offer one of my older/working
> systems that is now gathering dust. It seems like a fair trade. :-)
Right. Wrong problem ! I must have mis read your other Email, where
you said that the bios recognised a disk !!
Some Mb of this ilk will not talk to a HDD greater than 32Gb even if
they recognise it. However some HDD have a jumper that will limit
capacity to 32Gb.
The problem that I was mistakenly addressing was, a second user HDD
formatted on another machine, where the bios didn't understand the
translation.
The other thing is that some bios are buggy, and will not see the disk
properly unless set to auto detect. Even if you have asked it to
detect the drive manually, it still uses the wrong parameters. 32Gb
limit still applies.
HTH.
--
Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
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