[chadfree] Re: Motherboard doesn't recognise 40 GM HDD
- From: "T. Hunt" <ilrover@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: chadfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:24:08 -0400
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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