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Thread ID: 24011	2002-09-01 07:45:00	Help please - New Seagate drive	andy (473)	Press F1

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75515	2002-09-01 09:29:00	Andy, I wouldn't really recommend flashing the bios on a pcchips mobo. One of my machines has a pcchips mobo and it took me a full year (on & off) to get it working properly. Their site just seemed a mess (dunno if it's any better now), and trying to find drivers for onboard sound and video that actually worked was just a nightmare. Even the drivers that were supposedly specific for the board and d/loaded from their site wouldn't work properly !! :( With that kind of experience, I wouldn't recommend anyone flashing a pcchips bios.	antmannz (28)
75516	2002-09-01 10:00:00	As far as I'm aware, it won't detect more than what the drive is formatted as, which will be 32gb. And if the drive is being detected now as 32gb, you might have problems if you then tell the computer (or other computer) that it's a 40gb - you might not be able to read anything on it at all until you tell it that it's 32gb again. What I understand is that it'll be 32gb until you reset the jumpers (to allow it the full 40gb) and repartition/reformat the drive altogether. Mike.	Mike (15)
75517	2002-09-01 10:07:00	Ta mike, so to use this, i'm going to have to move ALL the data of the "32 gig" HDD, pull the jumper, and then put the data back on to the "new" 40gig HDD??? mmmmm. I seem to remember there being a 40 gig partition on the linix box, i hope its the "home" one, it's about to get well used. Any problems with the data being fat32, seeing its in a 'doze box at the moment?	Chris Wilson (431)
75518	2002-09-01 23:03:00	> Ta mike, > so to use this, i'm going to have to move ALL the > data of the "32 gig" HDD, pull the jumper, and then > put the data back on to the "new" 40gig HDD??? you WILL have to repartition and format too (hoping that fdisk or similar will see the 40gb) before the data goes back on... might need adjustments in the BIOS as well. > Any problems with the data being fat32, seeing its in > a 'doze box at the moment? There shouldn't be any problems going from 'doze to Linux, but there might be complications going the other way. But I'm not a Linux expert, so you might want to ask Graham L :) Mike.	Mike (15)
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