From: "Jack R Payton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 1:38 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Replacing Hard Drive


> On Sun, 27 May 2001 17:36:19 -0400 Hal Trachtenberg [log in to unmask]
> writes:
> 
> The problem that you will encounter is that the Bios is probably too old
> to accept hard drives larger than 8.4Gb, and an [BIOS] upgrade will fix
> that. IMO, a bios upgrade is preferable to having to use the disk manager
> program that comes with the hard drive.
> ___
> Question: Can't any BIOS HDD size limitation also be eliminated by
> partitioning the hard drive into logical partitions of a size equal or
> less than the BIOS limitation?
> 
> jack payton
> 

Jack,

For you to be able to partition the hard drive into sizes equal or less than the BIOS limitation the BIOS must be able to recognize the entire drive.  The BIOS limitation of 8.4 g means that the BIOS can't recognize any part of the drive past the 8.4 g, therefore you would not be able to access it to partition it.  

If there is not a BIOS upgrade, you could also add a Promise hard drive controller, Ultra 100 or Ultra 66, that would support the faster speeds of the larger hard drives now.

Mary Wolden

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