Post by thread:[OT]: Large disk support

Anybody know of a cheap-ware (preferably downloadable) software to allow me to run a > 500M hard drive on an older BIOS (486DX2/66)? Thanks. Andy =================================================================== A Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who is not. =================================================================== spam_OUTandyTakeThisOuTrc-hydros.com http://www.rc-hydros.com - Race Boats .....andyKILLspam@spam@montanadesign.com http://www.montanadesign.com - Electronics =================================================================== -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList piclist-unsubscribe-requestKILLspammitvma.mit.edu>

Try searching for "Disk Manager" on the web. I just tried HotBot and it returned citations for OnTrack, Seagate, National and others. These utilities used to ship with all those large drives. I've used OnTrack, but they seem to want money for the program now. Regards, Jim Ham At 04:33 PM 7/16/2000 -0400, you wrote: {Quote hidden}>Anybody know of a cheap-ware (preferably downloadable) software to allow me >to run a > 500M hard drive on an older BIOS (486DX2/66)? > >Thanks. > >Andy > >=================================================================== >A Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who is not. >=================================================================== > .....andyKILLspam.....rc-hydros.com http://www.rc-hydros.com - Race Boats > EraseMEandyspam_OUTTakeThisOuTmontanadesign.com http://www.montanadesign.com - Electronics >=================================================================== > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList >piclist-unsubscribe-requestspam_OUTmitvma.mit.edu > > Jim Ham, Porcine Associates (650)326-2669 fax(650)326-1071 "http://www.porcine.com" -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList @spam@piclist-unsubscribe-requestKILLspammitvma.mit.edu>

see http://www.driverzone.com/util/hd/ a nice site for lot's of stuff Regards Art ----- Original Message ----- From: Andy Kunz <KILLspammontanaKILLspamFAST.NET> To: <RemoveMEPICLISTTakeThisOuTMITVMA.MIT.EDU> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 1:33 PM Subject: [OT]: Large disk support > Anybody know of a cheap-ware (preferably downloadable) software to allow me {Quote hidden}> to run a > 500M hard drive on an older BIOS (486DX2/66)? > > Thanks. > > Andy > > =================================================================== > A Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who is not. > =================================================================== > spamBeGoneandyspamBeGonerc-hydros.com http://www.rc-hydros.com - Race Boats > TakeThisOuTandyEraseMEspam_OUTmontanadesign.com http://www.montanadesign.com - Electronics > =================================================================== > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList > RemoveMEpiclist-unsubscribe-requestTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList piclist-unsubscribe-requestEraseME.....mitvma.mit.edu>

Andy Kunz wrote: > Anybody know of a cheap-ware (preferably downloadable) software to allow me > to run a > 500M hard drive on an older BIOS (486DX2/66)? Uh, how about Linux? It's free (in both senses), it's downloadable, and it's capable of handling drives that the BIOS can't. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E | Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList EraseMEpiclist-unsubscribe-requestmitvma.mit.edu>

(To not exactly answer your question but suggest a couple perhaps better alternatives!): One way's to use SCSI - no 1024 x 16 x 63 (CHS) limits there. Just some limit based on your controller card. For IDE: Usually I only use ROMed or loadable BIOS VLB or ISA hard drive controllers for larger drives on old boxes; I've had too many friends bitten by "Drive Mangler", Drive Rocket, etc., losing all their data with a 1-bit error in the headers of the disk handler tables! While we all know fixing hardware can be therapeutic, we also know that losing data, isn't! CMD and DTC, among others (Siig, Promise, ...) make decent, inexpensive hard drive controller cards (VLB and ISA etc.) that will do you nicely. Some of theirs will let you add a driver for the 2nd IDE channel, if your computer's BIOS doesn't handle IRQ 15 / 0170h IOBase as an IDE channel (IMO those're FINE - the driver can be recovered and you can still boot on the first channel with a drive <527Mb or off a floppy so your data's still there and recoverable once you replace the driver with an un-corrupted copy.) If you want more details, just ask. Also: some HDD's in the 1Gb range can be jumpered to "become" 2 540Mb "virtual drives" - if you have one, it might work; I haven't tried this (I always reset those jumpers and use it as one straight volume.) Mark Andy Kunz wrote: {Quote hidden}> Anybody know of a cheap-ware (preferably downloadable) software to allow me > to run a > 500M hard drive on an older BIOS (486DX2/66)? > > Thanks. > > Andy > > =================================================================== > A Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who is not. > =================================================================== > RemoveMEandyEraseMEEraseMErc-hydros.com http://www.rc-hydros.com - Race Boats > RemoveMEandyspam_OUTKILLspammontanadesign.com http://www.montanadesign.com - Electronics > =================================================================== -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList RemoveMEpiclist-unsubscribe-requestTakeThisOuTspammitvma.mit.edu>

>Anybody know of a cheap-ware (preferably downloadable) software to allow >me to run a > 500M hard drive on an older BIOS (486DX2/66)? Yep, Linux ;-) Come to think of it, it will improve the os quality too imho. <G> The other option would be to locate a newer BIOS for a similar (or the same) board and use it. If you have a friend in a computer store he will likely point you to the right heap of junk to choose from... Downloadable ? Mhh. Cheapbytes Linux = $3.95 ? Or Mandrake 7.0 off a magazine cover CD. Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]: PIC only [EE]: engineering [OT]: off topic [AD]: advertisements

Thanks Peter, but LInux isn't an option for this guy (it's not my own). We have decided to resolve the problem by swapping parts to make a new machine (200 MHz K6 on another mboard I had laying around). Andy "Peter L. Peres" <EraseMEplpspamspamBeGoneACTCOM.CO.IL> on 07/17/2000 02:09:40 PM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list <RemoveMEPICLISTKILLspamMITVMA.MIT.EDU> To: PICLISTSTOPspamspam_OUTMITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: (bcc: Andrew Kunz/TDI_NOTES) Subject: [OT]: Large disk support >Anybody know of a cheap-ware (preferably downloadable) software to allow >me to run a > 500M hard drive on an older BIOS (486DX2/66)? Yep, Linux ;-) Come to think of it, it will improve the os quality too imho. <G> The other option would be to locate a newer BIOS for a similar (or the same) board and use it. If you have a friend in a computer store he will likely point you to the right heap of junk to choose from... Downloadable ? Mhh. Cheapbytes Linux = $3.95 ? Or Mandrake 7.0 off a magazine cover CD. Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]: PIC only [EE]: engineering [OT]: off topic [AD]: advertisements -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics