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In article <a8hehs869d4k8v61b2s6j1gttulgl3lrfh@4ax.com>, Harry Broomhall
<haeb@pc60.demon.co.uk> writes
>On Mon, 8 May 2000 20:47:33 +0100, Edmond Walsh
><Edmond@walsh.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>I recently bought a nice new IBM DJNA 352030 disk drive (about
>>20GBytes).  I have tried installing it on a PC with a gigabyte
>>motherboard (GA 586 TX3).  The disk drive just does not want to know.  I
>>have tried it as a slave on EIDE0 and as a master on EIDE1 but it is not
>>detected.  I suspect I may have a dead disk drive but I wonder if there
>>is anything else I should be looking at?  Any ideas anyone?
>>TIA
>
>   IMHO you will need to change the motherboard.  Very few TX boards
>know about drives over 8Gb.  Without checking details my first
>assumption would be that this belongs in that category.
>
>    Put the drive on a board that is *known* to support large sizes.
>If it *still* doesn't work then send the drive back!
>
>    Regards,
>            Harry.
>
That's worth checking.  Though I would still expect the BIOS to come up
with something.
-- 
Edmond Walsh