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Matt West <matt@tdraft.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I have just be told to set LBVA (large block address) to enabled in
>the bios, but there is no such setting.  It was suggested that I get a
>new bios driver from the hard disk supplier.

If your bios won't handle LBA, you have 2 options.  One is to hard-code
the drive to act like two drives.  There is a jumper on the drive which
enables this (try the Seagate BBS for details of the drive - 01628
478011).  Note, however, that you can only have the one drive on the IDE
cable if you do this.

The other solution is to go to the Seagate Web site (www.seagate.com)
and download their free version of On-Track disk manager, which will
allow the PC to see the full 1GB and partition it as you want.  On-Track
is a software driver which sort-of emulates LBA.  It works with DOS,
Windows and Windows 95, but I don't know about other OSes.  You may also
need an extra driver to run Win3.1 in 32-bit disk access mode - this
should also be on the Web site.

Failing that, you may be able to get an EIDE controller for your board,
but some are known to have flakey BIOSes.  I can't recommend one because
I haven't used them.

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Marcus Bainbridge 
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