Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:34:51AM -0400, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:38:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > I have running here a PII with Asus P2B-F motherboard and a 40Gbyte > > IDE drive. The manual for the P2B-F is rather poor, and fails to > > provide a number of

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:38:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I have running here a PII with Asus P2B-F motherboard and a 40Gbyte > IDE drive. The manual for the P2B-F is rather poor, and fails to > provide a number of vital details. > > I have been running a dual-boot Debian/W2000 scheme,

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:21:20PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 10/03/2007 08:39 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >[...] Surely a P-II that came > >with an 8GB drive (with no extra jumpers) should be able to use a 1 GB > >drive. The BIOS does show the correct size for each drive, detecting > >the

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/03/2007 08:39 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [...] Surely a P-II that came with an 8GB drive (with no extra jumpers) should be able to use a 1 GB drive. The BIOS does show the correct size for each drive, detecting the same geometry as printed on the drive. Thanks, Doug. Sorry about

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/03/2007 08:39 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [...] Surely a P-II that came with an 8GB drive (with no extra jumpers) should be able to use a 1 GB drive. The BIOS does show the correct size for each drive, detecting the same geometry as printed on the drive. Thanks, Doug. If you haven't

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:16:32PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071002 18:21]: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:38:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > > In order to get the system to boot, I found it necessary to install > > > the 32Gbyte clip j

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:48:48PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 10/02/2007 11:48 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > >I bought an 8 GB drive for my P-II so that I don't have to scrimp so > >much when installing (see previous theads). I also found a 1.1 GB > >drive. The box used to have an 8 GB dr

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071002 18:21]: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:38:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > In order to get the system to boot, I found it necessary to install > > the 32Gbyte clip jumper on any drive larger than 32Gbyte. > > > > Once the system boots, W20

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:38:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > In order to get the system to boot, I found it necessary to install > the 32Gbyte clip jumper on any drive larger than 32Gbyte. > > Once the system boots, W2000 thinks it is running on a 32Gbyte drive. > However, Debian sees

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071002 15:42]: > On 10/02/2007 11:48 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Hello all, >> I bought an 8 GB drive for my P-II so that I don't have to scrimp so much >> when installing (see previous theads). I also found a 1.1 GB drive. The >> box used to have an 8 GB dri

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-02 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/02/2007 11:48 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello all, I bought an 8 GB drive for my P-II so that I don't have to scrimp so much when installing (see previous theads). I also found a 1.1 GB drive. The box used to have an 8 GB drive that died last year. This computer seems very picky ov

P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I bought an 8 GB drive for my P-II so that I don't have to scrimp so much when installing (see previous theads). I also found a 1.1 GB drive. The box used to have an 8 GB drive that died last year. This computer seems very picky over what drives it will actually boot. The origional 8