Re: [OT?]

["mark_harrison_uk2" <mph@xxxxxxx>]

Keith,

The PC's on-board BIOS is used to see the drive that's needed to
boot...

After that, what happens depends on the operating system.

Windows 2000 and later can, at that point, start interrogating other
controllers, even if they aren't visible to BIOS/POST, and load
appropriate drivers to address them directly.

Ditto Linux.

Windows 98 can be made to cludge this, but only in certain
circumstances, and sometimes requiring third party applets, and is
far more dependant on the PC's BIOS.

You won't be able to see more on your system drive... but it does
provide a way to allow much bigger cards on an separate ATA-
controller, such as the one that Phil suggests. Indeed, it's a very
common way of adding big drives to old PCs... I've done it various
times in the past when drive technology has advanced but my older PCs
still ran what I needed them to... in fact, my MP3 server does
exactly this to this day, though its BIOS has NO CHANCE of
recognising the disk that actually stores them.

Regards,

Mark

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Keith Doxey" <ukha@d...> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Unfortunately I dont think that would work on this PC.
>
> I tried all the boot manage software that was available but the
only way the
> PC would actually see the drive to boot was if I put the jumper in
place to
> tell the BIOS it was a 32Gb drive. Without the jumper it refuses to
work. It
> also wont handle more than one CD Rom drive irrespective of which
of the IDE
> channels they are on. :-(
>
> Keith
>
> www.diyha.co.uk
> www.kat5.tv
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Dawe [mailto:list.mailbox@xxxxxxx...]
> > Sent: 26 September 2003 10:10
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT?]
> >
> >
> > Keith,
> >
> > I had an old PC with a similar limitation.  I found that
> > Windows 2000 seems
> > to ignore the BIOS and do its own thing, so when I installed
> > a 120GB drive,
> > Win2K could see the full capacity even though the BIOS
> > thought it was much
> > smaller.
> >
> > I also used that same PC to set up my Tivo 120GB drive.  The
> > version of
> > Linux on the boot CD I used also seemed to ignore the BIOS.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >