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Donald Rex Gaither <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:28:21 -0400
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Hi,
  Yes, you are taking a risk.  To get it to detect it correctly,
make sure LBA is turned on.  The 507 is the BIOS detecting it as
a 528 Meg HD, the maximum allowed without LBA.


HTH,
Donald Gaither

>I have a HDD fujitsu 2.6 GB UDMA that was formatted on a PC
P233 MMX, with a
>TYAN 1571s Motherboard. Then I put that HDD in a PC P 75, WITH
a P/I p55tp4n
>from ASUS. The BIOS is Award PNP BIOS EXT V1.0A
>IN this last pc the bios detecs a 507 MB HDD, however windows
started and
>reports the real capacity of the disk.
>¿ I am taking any risk if I let things how they are?
>¿ Any way to make the bios reports 2.6 GB?
>Thanks
>Roberto Safora Romay
>
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