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| Thread ID: 33384 | 2003-05-15 00:17:00 | Flashing (the BIOS) | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 144247 | 2003-05-15 04:01:00 | Well, having done the Google thing I think your right Whetu, I cant find any “flash” either that will expand the HD size. :( Tried Wims page first Russell and no luck there. Looks like one can flash the BIOS OK but not to make it recognise drives greater than 8.4 gigs. That sort of leaves me with two possibilities: Software workaround, and the possibility of a PCI IDE controller. Anyone actually tried the PCI IDE controller method? |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 144248 | 2003-05-15 05:25:00 | A SCSI drive would probably be OK, since the controller can add its own BIOS extension. But that would be more expensive. "No one could ever need more than 1 MB of memory, or a disk bigger than 5 MB" :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 144249 | 2003-05-15 06:03:00 | Of course, BM. I think a PCI IDE controller card would be the way to go. It has its own BIOS chip which overcomes the 8GB limit, but not only that you can take advantage of ATA100 or what have you, to get a better HDD data speed. It would be a worthwhile upgrade. I used an ATA66 with my old circa 1997 m/b to do just that. The boot process is a bit slower as the controller has to boot and detect the HDD as well as the main BIOS. Cheers |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 144250 | 2003-05-15 08:30:00 | Ah - What about these new SATA cards coming out? Just a quick Q. Does anybody know of pricing for HDD's that are SATA? What about PCI SATA Controllers? |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 144251 | 2003-05-15 08:45:00 | Thanks Graham & Terry, Does this sound like the beast? The DSE IDE RAID controller card is designed to super charge the sustained rate or/and provide fault tolerance feature for the inexpensive IDE drives. The Striping features increase sequential read and write performance for video editing and image applications. For applications which demand high data reliability, the mirroring feature keeps another copy of data simultaneously. This feature is called fault tolerance. A combination of Striping and Mirroring feature provide the best performance while keeping the highest data reliability. · PCI Bus Master DMA Transfer Rate up to 133MB/S · Supports 4 IDE Hard Disks with 100MB/S Transfer Rate · Supports RAID 0 (Striping) boost the performance · RAID 1 (Mirroring) supports Fault Tolerance feature · RAID 0+1 (Striping/Mirror) supports RAID 10 feature · Co-resides with Motherboard IDE devices · Supports CRC data protection for ATA devices · BIOS Utility for RAID Rebuild and Mode Settings · ROM BIOS for RAID settings and boot feature Features: · Supports up to 4 IDE devices. · Co-resides with motherboard IDE ports. · Supports Striping, Mirroring, and Striping/Mirroring RAID modes. · Onboard BIOS Setup utility for RAID configurations, and Mirror drive rebuilding functions · Supports "Cable Select Feature" which configure the master/slave settings for IDE drives automatically · Supports legacy IDE drives and current Ultra ATA66, ATA100 hard drives, it is backward compatible · I/O Hardware: Supports two internal 40-pin (20x2 headers) Ultra ATA100 IDE connectors · OS Support: DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, 98, Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 · Form Factor: 4.72" x 3.14" (12.00cm x 8.00cm) · PCI Interface: 32-bit PCI Bus Master DMA and Plug & Play compliant · Ultra DMA IDE Ports: Two Enhanced Ultra ATA100 IDE ports which fully support PIO mode 4 (16.6MB/S), multi-word DMA mode 2 (16.6MB/S), and Ultra DMA mode 5 (up to 100MB/S). · 1 year return to Dick Smith Electronics warranty. · CI-1550U10 IDE Raid Controller with HighPoint HPT370A Chipset · Note for Windows 2000 users: In order to install 2 DSE Raid cards into a Windows 2000 PC, you need to upgrade the BIOS from the highpoint website (using one of the links below) and download the new drivers. Cat No. XH6692 Whoops, didn't paste all that well. |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 144252 | 2003-05-15 09:03:00 | if you needed to boot from a floppy disk you had to wait for the overlay software to load first, then press the spacebar at the prompt and put the floppy disk in and press enter. If you didnt do this you couldn't access the data on your hard drive. | 4bes (2848) | ||
| 144253 | 2003-05-15 09:08:00 | OK... You have a problem. As far as I see it you run Win98SE. If you use the seagate overlay software to allow the O/S to read the drive you just may come across a problem re-installing the operating system. The reason is that when you set up Win98SE on a Hard drive that is using the overlay supplied by Seagate is that the setup program ( for Win98SE) will write to the boot sector and destroy the overlay software. A way around this is to install the overlay software first and partition the Hard drive the way you want it. Change to the CDRom drive with Win98SE on it using DOS and type setup /I /R If I haven't made myself clear then feel free to ask more. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 144254 | 2003-05-15 09:08:00 | That sounds pretty good BM, and at $88 is not a bad price, less than I paid for the plain vanilla ATA66 controller card, and with that you get the RAID facilities ( which Ive never used and dont know much about) and options for lots of hard drives/IDE devices. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 144255 | 2003-05-15 09:15:00 | I had a similar problem when I tried to put a 2 Gig HD into my sisters old 486 which had a HD limit of about 500mb. I partitioned the drive in my PC into 4 x 500mb partitions, put it into the 486, and installed win 95. The 4 drives showed up in 'My Computer' but it was too much of an inconvienience having 4 small drives so we decided on using the overlay software. The only thing I can't remember is how I configured it in the bios, but it did work. It may be worth trying if you can get 8 Gig partitions. |
4bes (2848) | ||
| 144256 | 2003-05-15 10:21:00 | Thanks everyone, I can’t quite see myself booting from floppy’s and going to a lot of trouble just to start the darn thing. (Almost like cranking your car, although some of you would not be familiar with that procedure) So, unless somebody comes up with something else I think I’ll run with the PCI IDE card. I’ll let you all know how I get on. Cheers Bob |
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