Re: Install: Getting beyond 2GB on old IDE

1998-11-27 Thread Greg Vence
Dude, actually this is an EIDE box. 540mb was origial IDE. It seems that EIDE had a 2.0? wall. UDMA EIDE I'm not sure of the limit... However, the bus it the same so you can use larger drives on the old systems. But in dos-land you've got to get a special driver (included from maxtor). If fig

RE: Install: Getting beyond 2GB on old IDE

1998-11-27 Thread Shaleh
Greg, what year is the BIOS? Some BIOS' only support 540mb, or 1.6gb, or others. On 27-Nov-98 Greg Vence wrote: > Hey, > > I've got an old slug for fs work. Its got a Maxtor 8GB drive. When I > boot the system it hangs unless I use there jumper. > > cyl, Heads, Sectors > Looks l

Install: Getting beyond 2GB on old IDE

1998-11-27 Thread Greg Vence
Hey, I've got an old slug for fs work. Its got a Maxtor 8GB drive. When I boot the system it hangs unless I use there jumper. cyl, Heads, Sectors Looks like 4092, 16, 63 Should be 16351, 16, 63 I thougth using cfdisk to tell it the truth would work but it doesn't just g