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| Thread ID: 21752 | 2002-07-03 05:08:00 | Hard Drive not showing correct size | arthur (823) | Press F1 |
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| 59370 | 2002-07-08 05:44:00 | Arthur, what make and model are the drives? | Graham L (2) | ||
| 59371 | 2002-07-08 06:11:00 | I have just done "33 GB limit" to google. According to IBM: Award 4.5x bios is limited to 33.8 GB. "This prevents the system from booting with IBM drives with capacity greater than 33.8 GB.". (IBM suggest using their Drive Manager). A posting at a .de university a few down in the google list: "Most HDs with sizes between 32 and ~40 GB feature a HDD size limitation jumper, which restricts the drive size to 32 GB". It seems that managers don't always work (just like companies ]:))in this case, because the BIOS is what crashes if the disk is too big --- before the disk manager can be loaded. The marketing nonsense about decimal millions and binary millions is not relevant here. Look for jumpers. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 59372 | 2002-07-10 18:38:00 | >I await the flame or the confirmation.... Confirmed .... then again I did mention that I was never good at binary/decimal conversions. As for nonsense ... some text books believe it to be 'not so nonsense' enough to mention it in their troubleshooting section of hard drives. Lastly re: flame. Last time I flamed was many years ago when I lead the "Anti-Elvis fan" coalition: number of members, 1. Number of fans, thousands! Number of complaints received by the Network Administrator, thousands! Lesson to be learnt from this riverting story is, either: 1. Don't flame 2. Pick on a newsgroup with jake all members. I opted for the first. ... Matt |
kr0-n0s (685) | ||
| 59373 | 2002-07-11 05:04:00 | Flame? :O I referred to "marketing nonsense". That's what it is. :D It's less blatant/extreme than it used to be with MFM disks which the installer had to format. They often advertised the raw size : unformatted. As a comparison, a 1.44 IBM MB floppy has 1.36 ISO MB, and 2 raw MB. ;-) As for troubleshooting books ... the differences between IBM/ISO/decimal sizes are not enough to be a "trouble". 40/33 is certainly 40/32 at some combination of radices (and due to a jumper setting on one of the disks, which is provided so that the disk can be installed with a BIOS which has the limitation.) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 59374 | 2002-07-11 22:07:00 | The drives are Samsung, they both show 40Gb when set as master, so I don't thik its jumpers. | arthur (823) | ||
| 59375 | 2002-07-12 07:13:00 | OK. I've just tried a google search with the string samsung "40 GB" limit . Have a look at one of the Samsung matches, and the driverguide one. They say "It's BIOS". I wonder if you have LBA enabled for the master, and not for the slave? Worth a try. | Graham L (2) | ||
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