At 03:40 AM 4/9/98 +0000, Mark Walter wrote:
>          I have a machine which is a bit older and I am trying to
>get it to recognize a 2.5GB HD. I thought that I could just partition
>the drive using fdisk by telling it to use a % of the drive and
>divide it into 5 sections. It does not seem to be working out that
>way, fdisk also will only see the drive as 515mb. What do I need to
>do to partition it so that the whole HD can be seen?

You will need a new IDE controller, one that supports EIDE.  The original
IDE spec recognized drives only up to about 520MB in size; apparently this
is what you have. If the controller is on the motherboard, you may be able
to disable it and plug in an EIDE card; otherwise just yank the old
controller card and pop in a new one.  Multi-function EIDE controller cards
(hd, floppy, etc.) are pretty cheap.

You may also need to update the computer's BIOS so that it recognizes the
larger drives.

ray reyes
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