I think you're referring to IBM's program that allows you to control the DMA mode of the drive. That won't have anything to do with getting the drive detected by the BIOS.
Even if it can't talk to it, it should at least see it. Check cables, check power, perhaps put the drive into another PC to check it. There are issues with drives that large and usability... all three of my Abit motherboards have had BIOS updates specifically to deal with drives that big and larger. ----- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson -----Original Message----- From: virtanen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 6:28 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: big IBM harddisk Hi, I purchased a new 40 G IBM harddisk. My box is an old 100 MHz Pentium, with slot 5. The problem is that the motherboard doesn't understand the harddisk at all. The IBM own (DOS) program, which is supposed to help to fix the problem doesn't help. Even if I boot the box using that IBM setfix program, the motherboard doesn't find the new harddisk at all. My system is Debian 'Potato'. Anybody knows, what to do? Hannu Virtanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]