Hello Mike,

< On 08:51 PM 6/16/98 -0400, Michael Beck blasted something about >

>I recently acquired a Quantum Bigfoot TX 12GB IDE drive, but have not been
>able to get my GW2K Pentium-Pro 200 w/ win98 to see more than 8GB of it.
>Any ideas? It seems to recognize the correct drive in the BIOS, but FDISK
>shows the wrong size. I there a limit at 8GB somewhere?

  If I remember correctly the FAT file system has a problem reading over
1024 cylinders, 255 heads, and 63 sectors. I believe this is the problem
you are having. There should have been a utility diskette that came with
the drive.  See if that works.

Good luck,


Tim Lider
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