Hi Jon,
sounds as if your BIOS has various issues with large drives indeed :-o Have you tried the usual workaround software which installs a "driver" in the actual MBR and shows the geometry-sanitized rest of the drive as if it were the drive? There even are Linux kernel options to correct for the sector number offsets caused by that, because of course Linux does not need that driver. Dynamic Drive Overlay, EZ Drive, something Ontrack are keywords which come to mind - not sure, though. Do I understand you correctly that the hardware originally is IDE-only, so your converter is to connect SATA drives to your IDE mainboard? Having a 1024x16x63 504 MB limit is quite evil, even worse than 8 GB or 128 GB limits. Must be a rather old BIOS. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
