[ale] I can't get a 6.8 Gig HD recognized as being > 2Gig.....

[ttwelve at yahoo.com (Steve Throckmorton)]

If your bios was manufactured before May 1996, it may be subject to a 2GB
limitation for the hard drive.  A Google search for '2gb bios limit' will turn
a ton of pages on the subject.  It can be overcome without a bios update, but I
kinda doubt any of the utilities that do that were written to run under
anything but MS OS's.
 
Steve

--- Courtney Thomas <ccthomas at flash.net> wrote:
> Greetings !
> 
> I can't get my system to recognize that a Maxtor IDE 6.8Gig drive is
> larger than 2 Gig no matter what I try.
> 
> I've tried using DOS, MaxBlast, manually entering it's CHS parameters
> with PNP BIOS turned off, putting it on different controller, different
> cable, and fdisk, among other things.
> 
> All help appreciated,
> 
> Courtney
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