Subj : Win NT 4.0 and large har
To   : Rich Ringer
From : Charles Scaglione
Date : Wed Oct 04 2000 07:38 am

Rich Ringer wrote to Charles Scaglione

RR> > RR> Book I need drivers for ny hard drive with more than
RR> > RR> 1024 cylinders. I have a Samsung hard rive that has 4924
RR> > RR> cylinders, 6 heads & 63 sectors for a total of 2.54 gig.
RR> > Are you saying the motherboard BIOS hard drive setup has no
RR> > setting for "LBA"? How old is the BIOS? If your BIOS is an
RR> > older version and does not support LBA, you could use a
RR> > drive overlay. Probably the easiest one to use for most
RR> > controller with an on board BIOS. A good one can be
RR> > purchased from Tekram or Promise. But we're talking here

RR>I am running this on a 486 dx2 66mhz system. With a hard 
RR>drive controller with 
RR>it's own onboard bios. I still can't seem to get it to recognise it.
RR>Any other ideas?

Does the controller support LBA?  Some older controllers with on board 
BIOS do not support LBA and really only supply additional IDE ports.

If the controller can support LBA it should have a jumper which can be 
set.  Once that's accomplished (assuming the controller is OK) go back 
into your CMOS setup and reconfigure the hard drive.  Then reboot and 
let the controller take over.

I've used a Promise controller with on board BIOS in the past and once 
it was jumpered correctly to LBA everything worked fine.  The newer 
controllers are jumperless and are setup through their BIOS much in the 
same way as SCSI controllers are.  

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