[NTLUG:Discuss] Hardware issues... motherboard

[TJ Davis]

You might check for a BIOS update too.  I have had the problem that you are
having and the solution was a quick BIOS update.  :-)

T.J. Davis
Southwestern A/G University
Information Technology
tjdavis at sagu.edu
(972) 937-4010 ext. 1255
1 Timothy 4:12


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Edwards [mailto:greg at nas-inet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 3:15 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Hardware issues... motherboard


Douglas King wrote:
> 
> I have just recently purchased a new ECS model K7S5A motherboard.  I am
> trying to install a Western Digital 100 gig drive into the system as the
> "data drive".  However, the BIOS only sees the first ~30 - 33 gigs.  Most
> motherboards I have seen, you can manually change the drive settings...and
> they claim on this board too, however, after about 1 1/2 hours...it still
> has not been changed.  :-(
> 
> Any suggestions or experience with this board?  It's wasting a perfectly
> good drive otherwise.
> 
> The box has RH 7.2 installed on it.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In BIOS either set LBR on for the drive and let it autodetect or set the
cyl, hd, sector values manually.  Some BIOS's will work either way and
some will only work 1 or the other way.  You may have to do trial and
error on these but one of them should work.

The OS does not matter here, its a BIOS issue.

-- 
Greg Edwards
New Age Software, Inc.
http://www.nas-inet.com

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