On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 10:09 am, Michael Adams wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:10:01 +0100 > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 6:03 pm, Joćo Candido Araujo Milasch Filho > > > > wrote: > > > Fat16 has suport to 4gb, but its not recommended to driver > > > greater than 512mb, i think > > > > You could be right - it's a long time ago. Thinking about it, it > > was cluster size rather than support of partition size that made > > us break our 8GB drives down into several partitions. > > > > Anne > > If it helps the original poster. > > Check your BIOS and see if it recognises the whole disk first. My > Epox-6VBA (circa 1999 from memory) would only recognise 32Gigs of a > 40Gig Seagate. > I can't remember how big a drive we were talking about. A friend of mine, though found his bios wouldn't support his new 80GB drive, but got a pci Promise controller card and has found it works fine. Are they recognised under Mandrake?
Anne
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