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Title: Uncooperative disk geometry
Post by: brad on March 03, 2001, 09:09:40 PM

So, I got a DIGITAL system with a Pent100 (about 5 old years maybe?) and the BIOS will not recognize the 40gig HD I've just put into it. Nor does it have enough room to put the C/H/S info manually (4866/255/63).

So, when E-Smith tries to boot, I get a

L   80   80   80   80  etc etc.

I've tried various settings like 1024/16/63, but nada.

It will boot fine via the boot disk.

The BOOT partition should be under the 1024 limit

Any ideas?

brad

Title: Re: Uncooperative disk geometry
Post by: Fennec KP on March 22, 2001, 02:31:57 PM

I'm sorry but i think that there is no chances that your system will work with such a big (and recent) hard drive ...on an old pc like this. If you still want to use this solution you should buy a pic ide controler but it will not work unless your bios can boot an external controler (like scsi). Or an other solution is to boot on a small hard drive and mount your 40Gb hard drive after boot using pci ide card.

Ps: sorry for my english i'm french ;)