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Article #69261Help - Installing new 1GB hard drive
From: Matt West
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 00:00
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I am currently trying to install a new Seagate ST5108A 1GB hard disk. It came with no manuals or software. My computer (Research Machine 486 DX2) will auto-detect the new drive correctly, but when I go to DOS and try to format the new disk it is not found. Drive c: is just reported as an invalid specification. 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. This is now getting beyond me. It would seem that my machine can't read large drives (opposite to what I was originally told), so can someone enlighten me as to what to do next and if it is possible to get the required drivers off the net ? Thanks for any help.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,d713539948329924 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public From: matt@tdraft.demon.co.uk (Matt West) Subject: Help - Installing new 1GB hard drive Date: 1996/04/04 Message-ID: <3163fae3.840517@news.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 146206693 x-nntp-posting-host: tdraft.demon.co.uk organization: Somewhere in Oxfordshire, England. newsgroups: demon.tech.pc