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In article: <N2dnBAA9yAZxEw28@mwb.u-net.com>  Marcus Bainbridge 
<marcus@mwb.u-net.com> writes:
> 
> 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.
> 

(snip)

> 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.
> 

I had a bad experience with the Fujitsu version of the On-Track Disk Manager
- it both made my machine unstable and caused loads of comms overruns.

On-Track tech support were helpful but unable to solve the problem.

I have now abandoned it (and half of a 1Gb hard disk) pending a 
motherboard upgrade, and all is well again.

I think the problem is that I use a VL Bus I/O card which needs
it's own driver, and the driver conflicts with DM.

If your system is standard, without any specialist drivers etc,
it may well be OK, but I suggest you experiment to see if you have the
problems I did before relying on the drive.

-- 
Stephen Purser