No, I ran a 20 GB drive on this machine. Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:33 PM Subject: Re: Strange things with my hard drive > Since he's building a new machine, his bios probably has a drive limit way over 8 gb. > Greg > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:19:40AM -0500, Pete wrote: > > > > Can you check your bios/cmos settings? Some bioses require cdrom drives > > to be set to none and others have a cdrom selection while yet other bioses > > will work whith auto or none set for the cdrom. If the hard drive is les > > than (8 gig? the bioses limit? or maybe 2 or 4 gig limit?) set up the hard > > drive whith the C H S values in cmos. Usually setting the P I O and the U > > D M A modes to auto will work. There may be a couple of settings like L B > > A (larg block addressing) or I think another one called just large mode. If > > your lucky you can set this one to auto. More likely there either an on/off > > or check box to check. I geus what I am really trying to say is check the > > settings in bios/cmos for the hard drive you are trying to install. > > Depending on what hard drive you have there may be two jumpers to set. One > > for master / slave etc and another one for cylinder limitation. The > > cylinder limitation for example: if you have a bios/cmos whith an 8 gig > > limit and your hard drive is 10 gig, you would set both master and cylinder > > limitation jumpers. Some computers wont boot unless the cylinder limit > > jumper is set to occomidate the limit in bios/cmos most I have seen will > > boot any way so not booting could tell you some thing. Usually no jumpers > > on the cdrom meens slave. Also most cdrom and hard drives have jumpers for: > > master, slave and cable select. You may have a system whith cable select, > > in which case set all drives to cable select (CS). The cable select, this > > setting detirmines by possission which drive is master and which one is > > slave. How new are the hard drive and cdrom and how old is the motherboard? > > Pete > > > > > Hell, listers! > > > I know some of you, especially Kerry, are big hardware specialists. Hope > > you > > > will be able to advise something for me this time as well. > > > I am putting together a new machine. Whenever I connect the hard drive to > > > the IDE0 and CDROM to IDE1, both on master, I get "hard disk failed...", > > but > > > CDROM is found. However, if I connect hard drive to IDE1 and CDROM to > > IDE0, > > > both to master, then both are recognized fine. Why is this hapenning? I > > > tried these combinations several times, and the same result comes out. > > > Can you suggest something? > > > Victor > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
