Pentium Pro 200 & 30 GB Maxtor?

[Xuttah]

Will an FX motherboard w/ Pentium Pro 200 be able to detect a 30GB IDE drive? Currently mine cannot. It's a new system I'm building, and I've verified all that I can.

Any help will be appreciated!

 

[Thespeedster]

if it doesn't detect it, enter it into the bios manually. but make sure you have the latest bios. if that doesn't work then you can use a program like maxblast for maxtor hd's. you'll have to partition it to use it all.

 

[Ben]

It depends how new the motherboard is and if the manufacturer has kept up with BIOS updates.

 

[Xuttah]

I just updated the BIOS to the latest version -- circa 1997. And a correction: It's a WD drive, not Maxtor. I must have inhaled...

Anyway, WD's EZ-BIOS won't install without selecting the option to format the whole drive FAT32. I want to load Linux/Solaris on this box. Any ideas if Maxtor's MaxBlast would work, and if so, would it let me install a non-Windows OS?

 

[Xuttah]

Ok. I'm stumped. If my BIOS won't recognize my 30GB drive, and I don't want to partition it and format w/ FAT32 using WD's EZ-INSTALL, how do I install anything non-Windows?

Is there a non-manufacturer utility like EZ-BIOS that will just enable my system to see this drive?

 

[Thespeedster]

did you go to WD's website and look for a linux ver of EZ install?

 

[littleprince]

linux can install on fat 32
just slow performance.

 

[SemperFi]

Go buy an ATA66 controller. I saw them clearanced at my local staples for about $13. It would recognize the drive.