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Article #1009Re: 800Mb Conner EIDE without LBA BIOS?
From: Greg Ogden
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 00:00
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johnnie@jchan.demon.co.uk "Johnnie Chan" writes:
> I have a dx2-66 without LBA on BIOS. I am able however to speicify
> more than 1023 cylinders on my BIOS. I also have an EIDE I/O card (no
> builtin BIOS though).
> Any one with useful help? I would rather not have to buy yet another
> I/O card.
Depending where you're going to buy your Conner drive from, you should get
(either included or extra) a piece of software called EZ-Drive which will
allow you to use all of the HDD space as one partition. EZ-Drive circumvents
the BIOS settings somehow. I believe there is some software called Disk
Manager which performs a similar task.
I tried something similar to what you are suggesting with a 1.2 Gb drive
and my machine just couldn't see more than 504 Mb (I think that was the
figure). I mean I couldn't seem to make any more partitions visible until
I installed EZ-Drive.
Which is why I ask "where are you buying it", since if you buy a full
retail pack with nice box I believe it should be included in the price.
However if you buy an OEM version, which could be a lot cheaper, you might
find that EZ-Drive is extra.
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Greg Ogden
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