Rusty Festa

I have just bought a 60Gb HDD and I can not get my BIOS to see it no matter what combo of jumper settings I use on my 2.1Gb Master or the 60Gb Slave

Is it possible my Mother Board can't handle it? - I have no idea what the MoBo is but it is running a very old Cyrix 266Mhz chip

Cheers, Jon

towzer

sounds like a problem from years ago called logical block addressing where the Bios couldn't see over a certain number of cylinders, blocks and heads. At the time Win95 OSR1 couldn't see more than a couple of gig so it wasn't a problem until bigger drives came out.

When they did arrive in the market place bios updates were written and some manufacturers (like seagate) had a specific piece of software to overcome the issue.

Do a search on LBA or logical block addressing, otherwise it's a case of New PC Time.

Phil

Rusty Festa

I was hoping someone would say that just can't afford a new mobo and chip - recommend anything inexpensive (not cheap ) with upgrade potential?

All my RAM is SDRAM PC100 and I would like to avoid having to get new RAM as well as mobo, chip and case (need new psu as this one is only 200w )

towzer

How much do you want to spend?

Rusty Festa

£100 maybe £150 tops

towzer

Have you tried e-bay?

Phil

super_si

Might have a solution for you.

expect an e-mail off a mate.

Si