Since LBA is enabled, it is supported (or else it
would not appear).  So it seems that your mb does
support it.  (Is it set on "auto?")

Since a complete scan goes ok on another computer,
the disk should be ok.

Therefore, I suspect that you may have a bad cable
that is causing problems.  Have you had trouble
reading from the disk in applications???  I would
experiment using a different cable.  Perhaps this one
has a somewhat weak connection somewhere.
(This is just a guess.)

Dean Kukral

-----Original Message-----
From: W.D.Duck McDonald <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 9:18 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard Disk size limit on 486 ??


Hello,

I'm trying to install a Samsung 2.1Gb IDE drive in a 486/66 computer.

Is thare a hard drive limit that this machine can see?  It is a Zeos
Rattler
Pantera,  Pheonix BIOS v4.03,  LBA is Enabled.

When I try to run scandisk on this machine, it always gives the
following
message:
"ScandDisk cannot read from the last cluster on drive C. This cluster
is
either damaged, or your system is not configured properly. Drive C may
need to have Logical Block Adressing (LBA) enabled to work properrly,
or its disk partition may be incorrectly marked as a non-LBA
partition.
Data loss can occour if you LBA setting or disk partition type for
this
drive is misconfigured......."

I eventually went ahead and ran scandisk and it started finding all
bad (I
don't rember if it was sectors or clusters) after about 24% of disk
was
scanned.

I installed this disk as a slave in my 6X86 P166+ and ran FDISK
creating only one large dos partition.  I formatted it and it scanned
OK
(full surface scan) using ScanDisk.  When I placed it back in the 486
machine, ScanDisk again gave the above message.  I'm using Win98 on
both macines.

Is thare a hard drive size limit that this machine can see even with
LBA
enabled?

Will I have to partition it?

If so what size would be best?

Thanks,
"Duck" McDonald
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