Re: big disks and old BIOS

From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Date: Sat Jun 17 2000 - 00:46:59 EDT

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    > Except if you're blessed with a GA-686LX board with an ancient
    > AWARD BIOS and a Maxtor 93652U8 (~36 GB).

    Have you looked at the url I indicated?
    There I mention the exception of early Maxtor drives just
    above 33.8 GB, and that Maxtor provides a utility JUMPON.EXE
    that makes the jumper behave as I described.
    Have you run this utility?

    Andries

    http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-11.html#ss11.3

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