Note that the FIC 503+ motherboard has 2 places to "turn on" LBA:
1) there is a "block mode enabled" (? 2nd or 3rd setup screen)
2) in the first setup screen for the hard drive you can choose LARGE, LBA,
or NORMAL hard drive mode...choose LBA here.
Martin Kurr
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> ----------
> From:         Donald Rex Gaither[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Subject:      Re: [PCBUILD] Maxtor Mystery
> Is LBA turned on?
> Donald Gaither
> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Mark Rode
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Maxtor Mystery
> I have a six month old Maxtor ULTRA EIDE drive installed on the primary of
> a FIC 503 + ....a Mitsumi CD Burner is installed on the secondary as a
> master with a Teac CD reader installed as a slave.
> At this point I ran professional diagnostics......Spinrite reports 528
> megs.....Quick Tech Pro...reports a hard drive with 528 megs.
> Maxtor tells me if their diagnostics doesn't see a problem then it is not
> the drive.
> At Boot the BIOS correctly shows the drive as CHS, UDMA 2, 5763MB.
> I can perform tasks with Partition Magic 4.0 without any kind of error
> message. NDD reports no errors. Drive image 2.0 reports an error message
> that there is more then 1024 when attempting to restore a partition but
> Drive Image 3.0 does not.

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