On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 04:25:42PM +0000, Mark wrote: > Yeah - just been through a very similar battle with an Epox motherboard > EP-8RDA and a Samsung 80G and a Maxtor 60G drives. > > I won't bore you with all the hassles, but in my case (after hours of > digging), I discovered that the BIOS has a setting for how the hdds > are addressed. I don't pretend to understand all the details, but > the BIOS was defaulting (on an AUTO setting) to CHS, whereas on larger > disks, LBA (or perhaps large?) are appropriate.
Sounds like the BIOS is somewhat broken. CHS is no good for anything over half a gig! LBA is indeed correct. Not entirely sure what "large" does; I think it's some sort of fudge that can handle more than half a gig but not as much as LBA. I once had a WD Caviar 850 drive / BIOS combination that played silly buggers if you didn't use "large", but that single occurrence is the only time I've had to use it. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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