I too want to thank you for your ranting. I certainly find it very informative, and I enjoy learning about this stuff even though I've built 2 machines and dismanteled 3 486s, and repaired 2 other machines. Greg On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:59:31AM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote: > How big is the drive you are trying to use? Is the boot > partiton below the 8.4gb limit? That is strange that int13 is not > controlling the device it should. If your motherboard has udma/66 or udma/100 > controllers it needs the 80-wire cable. > Some motherboards and drives don't get on so wd released a utility to disable udma/66 > with a loss in performance. > Does lifeguard show any drive errors? If it does it's the drive's fault. > Is the bios the latest that is available for the board? A bios upgrade > can fix hard disk recognition problems. > Feel free to summarize precisely what is in the machine > and how it is hooked up. > Motherboard type and bios date if known. processer. ram. type and number > of drives. Model numbers of cdrom and hard drives hdd most important. > I can't see anything so far that jumps out at me, but something might ring alarm > bells when I see the system config. > No there are no copyrights on my messages; > I just get into a mood where I feel it necessary to rant about something > I know things about to either summarize points given, > clear missinformation (cable select one slave on a cable) etc. > > There is a FAQ on ide and the like it is called the Fast ata faq or something > available on news.answers look for enhanced ide/ata faq or similar. > > Regards, Kerry. > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:05:42PM +0100, Victor Tsaran wrote: > > Hi, Kerry! > > I think I am going to collect your very informative messages. Are there any > > copyrights on them?! > > When I ran Western Digital Lifeguard floppy, it told me that int13H is not > > supported and that BIOS is not controling your device. > > Also, a strange thing happens here. > > When I switched 40-pin cable for 80-pin cable, Windows XP would not start, > > and only after I, in despair, reflashed BIOS, everything started to work > > normally. Don't know what to think about all of this. > > Victor > > > > -- > Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
