On 1999-04-28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>I pressed del to enter setup, and in the storage selected hard disk
>2, and arrowed to auto, and pressed enter.
>It didn't work!
I had an older WD HD that would not auto detect. I was having other
troubles with the bios too, However. I did get another newer Seagate drive
to auto detect, so I think the WD drive was just too old to be auto
detected, possibly.
>I was lucky some one found the drives cylender head and sector for
>me, other wise I don't think I would have got it to work.
>The cylenders heds sectors wore not listed on the drive, so I was
>real lucky.
Survpc is a good place to ask. I can look up many older drives in a book I
have.
>I didn't have to use disk maniger or do any thing like a low level
>format or any thing like that.
I have heard that low leveling am IDE HD is a bad thing....don't know why.
I am not familiar with Disk Manager either.
>I think the limit for a hard drive in dos was or is 540 MB, but am
>not sure wheather this is a dos thing or a cmos thing.
I believe it is a limit in some bios in 386's.
Chad A. Fernandez
Battle Creek,MI
Net-Tamer V 1.11.2X - Test Drive
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