On 14 Sep 98 at 19:00, Lance W. Kephart wrote:

> >Please describe your drive connections:  >primary/secondary, master/slave/csel, specific
> >drive models and jumper settings on each
> >drive.
>
> The drive is a Western Digital Cavaiar 34300, jumper is set to
> single for right now.

> The BIOS was flashed, but I'm not sure if I gained anything.  It
> originally showed the BIOS as V6.153PA2, but after flashing it
> (using FIC's instructions and BIOS update from their web site)
> it changed to V2.03C700.  I haven't done much learning yet when
> it comes to BIOSes, but I thought this kinda strange.

  I agree that this is strange; but manufacturers can use whatever
version numbers they like, so it doesn't necessarily mean anything.
[Their page shows the latest as 2.05C800.]
  Hmmm...  Several of the other PA-20xx boards show version numbers
in the 6.15 region.  Any chance that your board is actually not a
-2000, but a -2005 or something like that?

> When I do the auto-detect feature, it reads the drive parameters
> correctly, but shows the drive size as 76MB.  Even entering the
> data manually still shows the same results.  I have the drive
> installed on a 486/DX2 66 with no problems recognizing it.

  I think this is the critical piece.
  Some BIOSes have trouble with drives larger than 2.1GB.  This
trouble can appear in several ways -- some will show larger drives as
2.1GB, others will report the drive size MODULO 2.1GB.  Adding 2.1
and 2.1 and .076, I get 4.276, so I expect that yours is one of the
latter.  [This behaviour for a drive bigger than 4.2GB is sort of
reasonable, although I've never actually seen it before.]

David G

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