Has your friend downloaded the newest Drive parameter table from Compaq?
It's SoftPaq number SP2824.  Or you can download the entire setup
program, SP1363.  You can then add any harddisk, since the setup
diskette will auto-detect the drive.  All you need to do is save settings
when you exit setup.  I don't know the largest drive it will support, but
certainly up to 2 gig, which is much better than the original setup.
tom turak


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From:   Robert Orin Charles Kilroy[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Sunday, June 14, 1998 10:23 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: [PCBUILD] Compaq Hard Drive problem

Edna Sloan wrote:

> A friend has a Compaq 48625SX all-in-one model(Presario Net/25S) that came
> with a 100MB IDE hard drive.
> She wants to replace the drive with a 540MB, but cannot get the system to
> take it.  When she tries to boot up, after installing and manually changing
> the bios for the 540, she gets a "controller failure" error message.

I have done this recently  ghosting drives at work.  The problem was I didn't
reconnect the power cable on the drive when I put it back in.  When all else
fails, go back to the basics.

Robert Kilroy
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