You said in a previous post that the board was 4 years old. What's the highest hd capacity that this board's bios supports? Greg On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:41:41PM +0100, Victor Tsaran wrote: > No, I ran a 20 GB drive on this machine. > Vic > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu> > 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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
