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From: gabriel@twave.net (Richard L. Gabriel)
Subject: Re: Problem installing HDU! Please Help.
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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:59:06 GMT
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roekp@worldaccess.nl (Peter Roek) wrote:

>Dear reader,

>This week I purchased a second HDU and after a lot of struggling I got it in my 
>computer. The problem now is that I can't get it working correctly. With the jumpers 
>I made the old harddisk MASTER and the new one SLAVE. Also I announced the new HD to 
>the BIOS.

>This is the new situation:

>Old harddisk:   SeaGate 1Gb as Master
>New harddisk:   Western Digital 2.5Gb as Slave

>Starting up the system it says that the new Western Digital was found. But it says 
>the new HD is only 445Mb big. Very strange! What went wrong? How can I make the new 
>harddisk 2.5Gb, and how can I make it disk "E:"??? 

>Please help!

>This is in the BIOS:

>MASTER: User (1081Mb), Cyl 524, Hds 64, Pre 0, Lz 2098, Sect 63, Mode LBA.
>SLAVE:  User ( 445Mb), Cyl 4960, Hds 16, Pre 65535, Lz 4959, Sect 63, Mode Nrml.

>Thanks very much so far..!


>--
>Peter Roek
>Roosendaal NL
>Tel/fax: (+31)165-514671
>E-mail: roekp@worldaccess.nl

Hello Peter,
While you didn't tell us just what type and vintage your system is, it
sure sounds like you are running up against the 504MB "limit".  The
usual solution is to use a software "overlay" such as Western Digitals
diskmanager.  IMHO this is a poor solution as many experience
incompatibility problems.  A hardware solution is much prefered.  This
involves either upgrading your BIOS, or better yet installing an
enhanced IDE disk controller board.  I have an EIDEMAX board (from
Promise Technology, Inc) installed in my old 486DX33 and it is working
like a charm.  I have 3 hard drives installed, the largest of which is
a 2.1GB WD.  For good information on this approach, check out:
http://www.promise.com    (as I recall :-)  )  or search using
"Promise".    Good Luck,  Richard





