[chadfree] Re: Motherboard doesn't recognise 40 GM HDD


Shyamal Gupta wrote:

> At 10:19 AM 9/24/2004, T. Hunt wrote:
> 
>>Most motherboards of that era will have an 8.4GB limitation.  If you
>>can't get a BIOS upgrade to solve the problem, you'll need to use a
>>drive overlay.  Most of the harddrive makers offer the overlay on their
>>websites.
> 
> 
> Its a western digital 40 GB drive, but their website doesn't seem to have 
> anything on drive overlay. Could it be known by any other name ?

###  Go here:  http://support.wdc.com/download/   and get the Data 
Lifeguard Tools for DOS.  This will create a bootable diskette that will 
install the drive overlay.  This will be under the section for drive 
installation.  Read deep, it's there.

Tom
> 
> 
> 
>>Either that, or get an IDE controller card and plug the drive into that.
>>  Promise makes many versions of controller cards.
> 
> 
> This is always possible, but perhaps not worth it for an old system like 
> this. Actually this computer isn't really needed -- just tinkering around 
> with it getting some experience with hardware.
> 
> 
>>The Zida site appears to be broken, at least where Support is concerned,
>>so your best bet is to install the IDE controller.
>>
>>What is the make and model of the machine?
> 
> 
> Its a Tomoto TX 98 motherboard with Ami Bios version 1.12. The system was 
> assembled locally some years ago. Pentium MMX 233 96 MB RAM.
> 
> 
> SG


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