--- luth-astro{at}earthlink.net wrote:
> In , on 06/16/2004 
>    at 03:20 PM, Felix Miata  said:
> 
> >> POST knows nothing about DaniS506.ADD, right?
> 
> >This is true, as it would be for any kind of proprietary driver that
> >might ship on an accompanying CD for any OS. No kind of driver can
> do
> >anything before some OS loads one.
> 
> The point is, it stops during POST.
> 
> >Some other options that might be there are AUTO, LARGE, and specific
> >values for cylinders, heads & sectors. On older BIOS this was always
> >the first screen. In newer ones it's typically down a layer or a
> second
> >screen.
> 
> Aha.  I was digging in the Integrated Peripherals section (Award
> 4.60) 
> The snooper found nothing, but there was still a first drive
> configuration on the first screen.  I turned that off - and got the
> same
> thing.
> 
> Except that now I apparently got the last of the stuff in I.P. shut
> down
> and now it pops up with some RAID stuff.  I'm assuming this is coming
> from the card, because there is no RAID port on the mobo.  But the
> only
> thing RAID showed was the CDROM listed as drive 0.  No sign of the 20
> gb
> HD.
> 
> I'd think the drive itself was bad, but if I stick it into my main
> machine (on BM) I can boot it to a copy of my main system on it.
> 
> I'm bamboozled.  Maybe this Award 4.60 BIOS just can't handle
> whatever
> is in/on this Maxtor?  The machine that boots fine from this drive
> has a
> 6.0x BIOS.
> 
I don't know what it is about maxtor, but I cannot use mine on an 80
pin cable with my TCC K7TA-H motherboard with VIA chipset.  Have you
tried a different brand hard drive on your system? My WD doesn't have
any problem.

Franklin


		
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