Re: 2.5 Gb harddisk becomes 520 Mb.

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From: Dave
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:00

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It appears that you don't have EIDE (enhanced IDE) capabilities. I
don't know where the software can be found, but the most effective
method is to buy an EIDE interface card. The only problem is they cost
a bit.

On Tue, 16 Dec 1997 15:16:11 +0100, lucmook@xs4all.nl (J.L.Mook)
wrote:

>I want to install a 2.5 Gb Quantum Bigfoot harddisk on my 486DX33 
>computer, but it doesn't seem to see the harddisk my BIOS tells me that I 
>have installed a 2.5 Gb harddisk but when I go to Dos or Win95 it's only 
>520 MB. I understand there is software witch will fix this problem !
>
>Can anybody tell me how I should do this and where I can find this 
>Software......Thanxx
>
>Luc Mook

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From: dvanee@dowco.com (Dave)
Subject: Re: 2.5 Gb harddisk becomes 520 Mb.
Date: 1997/12/17
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