Re: [TCLUG:1638] old bios, new hard disk

[Jon Kotek <kotek@oath.net>]

Remember also that you can't go above 2gig with fat16 on win95.

Jon



At 11:42 AM 10/6/98 -0500, you wrote:
>What is sounds like to me is a BIOS translation problem.  Check your BIOS
>and see if there is a translations setting and make sure to set that to
>'LBA' if it isn't set to LBA Windows/DOS cannot access anything above 528MB.
>
>At 11:36 AM 10/6/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>Well, I'm back to world of the living. Mid-quarter reports were due today,
>>and I was up until 3am finishing grades. Now I can return to getting my
>>computers working.
>>
>>I finally got the misc. parts that I had ordered to finish assembling some
>>Pentium systems. The first one I put together is a P-90. I put in 64 MB
>>RAM, ethernet, ATI video card, and a new 4.3 GB hard disk. I entered the
>>BIOS and put the number of cylinders, sectors, etc. and it seemed like the
>>BIOS was OK--it reported that the disk was the correct size.
>>
>>These machines will be dual-boot with Win95 so I tried to partition the HD
>>so I could install Windows. The Windows 95 fdisk program won't recognize
>>the disk correctly. It thinks it's 430 MB (or something like that).
>>
>>Is this a BIOS or Windows problem. BTW, the Linux Disk Druid correctly
>>reports the size of the hard disk. That makes me think it's a Windows
>>problem. If so, what's the fix?
>>
>>-Tim
>>
>>--
>>Timothy D. Wilson			"A little song, a little dance,
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>>
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