--- John Henry Miller <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I have tried to add a 40Gig hard drive to a
> relatively new motherboard
> and lost all the data on the existing hard drive!
> So, I would 2nd the
> opinion that you make sure everything is backed up.
> I had my 40 Gig
> drive working and  just connected my old hard drive
> and everything was
> lost!  BACK IT UP!  Luckily I had backed everything
> up so I was not
> harmed by it.
>
> I also would reccomend a "Promise" IDE controller
> card rather than a
> BIOS upgrade.  After having upgraded to a 40 Gig
> hard drive, I bought
> one and noticed a significant improvement in
> perfromance from the IDE
> controller card.  The speed that it took to copy a
> 700 Meg file was cut
> in half so the $30 was well worth it.
>
> John H. Miller


Can somebody please explain what a Promise IDE
controller has to do with the bios recognizing a hard
drive larger than 8.4Gb. The Promise IDE controller
increases the access speed for the drive, but how does
that effect the detection of the drive if it is too
large for the older Bios?

Hal T.


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