Civileme wrote:
>
> <Adds FIC VA503+ and big drives to his list of things to avoid>
DO NOT add this motherboard, nor big drives to your "avoid" list.
As I've already posted, I previously used a FIC-503+ board along with a
7G and a 6.4G drive. Neither drive had ANY problems. Setting the BIOS
to LBA (or possibly LARGE, though it's been awhile since I played with
that BIOS) will allow all operating systems to see all parts of the
drive. Windows included.
I'm not sure why the original poster seems to think that the MaxBlast
software is required. From what I recall of the dirty little utility,
it was intended for extremely old BIOSes which didn't recognize drives
larger than 528M. It's been a LONG time since those BIOSes have shipped
on retail boards. We're talking early 486 days, folks.
My advice stands. Toss the MaxBlast disk into the trash. Forget you
ever owned it. Modify your BIOS settings to reflect that you're using a
large drive and need Logical Block Addressing (LBA). All will be fine.
> Try www.compgeeks.com. They may have a few Promise EIDE controllers
> left.
>
> DON'T, not even in an air raid, consider an ISA EIDE controller. I
> think that sort of bottleneck could break a lot of assumptions made by
> the programmers.
>
> If you cannot get the board there for a substantial discount, then try
> www.dcdrives.com for full factory price.
>
> Civileme
>
> Thomas & Peter wrote:
>
> > I have a FIC VA503+ with a Maxtor Hard drive. I am running Win 98 and
> > Mandrake. My MB recognizes my Maxtor HD but not its size. I have
> > upgraded my bios to the newest version. So I have to install EZ Bios
> > to get it to see its full size. Everything is running fine except that
> > EZ Bios makes Linux see My HD as a temporary drive. instead of the
> > main. So it will not run executible programs. I wrote FIC 4 times
> > inquirering about this problem before upgrading my Bios and have not
> > gotten an answer. Maxtor E d me the next day and told me to get an
> > EIDE controller card. Does any one know of a card that Linux will see.
> > I have a space for PCI and ISA. Thank you Thomas
>
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