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Adding a 60gig drive to an old PII machine

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Mavrick007

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Hi, a friend of mine has a 60gig drive that he's trying to add to his old PII system. I updated the bios to the latest one that has been out and the machine still will not recognize the drive.

I tried the drive out on my machine (which is a newer AXP machine), and it picked the drive up fine.

Any ideas what would need to be done besides getting a PCI controller card to recognize the drive so he can use it on his old dinosaur? (Heh Please don't suggest upgrading the machine since I have been trying to get him to upgrade.. he can't afford it at this time)
 
there should be a jumper setting to limit teh drive to 32 (or is it 37) gb. If it won't show up properly, this may be the only option.
 
Are you talking about on the motherboard or on the hard drive?

I don't think you should have to limit it to less than the maximum in order to see the drive since I never had to do this with my old K62 system which is just as old. I just had to update the bios to see drives greater than 32gigs.
 
Does the BIOS see the drive? If it does you may have to get the overlay SW or the LBA software or whatever the hell its called, from the HD manufacturer.
 
I had this trouble once and had to use something I think it was called a overlay or something like that to get it to work right.

I think it was a small program or driver that I had to boot from a floopy and run it from the floopy and then after it worked.
 
Originally posted by: Mavrick007
Are you talking about on the motherboard or on the hard drive?

I don't think you should have to limit it to less than the maximum in order to see the drive since I never had to do this with my old K62 system which is just as old. I just had to update the bios to see drives greater than 32gigs.
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The jumper would be a setting on the drive itself.

Perhaps the newest bios doesn't support >32gb drives - I have no idea, but it might be one solution to the problem.
 
BIOS is probably the limiting hardware. You can get a PCI Promise IDE adapter off eBay for very cheap, and that would get the drive to work in the computer.
 
The bios doens't recognize his drive at all. It doesn't show up so partitioning is not going to work and I don't think the Western Digital software would help the bios to see the drive, but perhaps the bios just doesn't support larger drives even though it is the latest one available for that old system.

I can't remember the name of the board since I'm at work, but it was something like Tekram. He's going to email me the links to the bios and the release notes. I'll update this post when I get them with the only line that resembles support for new drives.
 
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