On 10 Sep 98 at 23:14, Roberto Safora Romay wrote:

> I have a HDD fujitsu 2.6 GB UDMA that was formatted on a PC P233 MMX, with a
> TYAN 1571s Motherboard. Then I put that HDD in a PC P 75, WITH a P/I p55tp4n
> from ASUS. The BIOS is Award PNP BIOS EXT V1.0A
> IN this last pc the bios detecs a 507 MB HDD, however windows started and
> reports the real capacity of the disk.
> ¿ I am taking any risk if I let things how they are?
> ¿ Any way to make the bios reports 2.6 GB?

  Some BIOSes don't correctly handle drives over 2.1GB; some of these
report only the size by which the drive exceeds that limit, and I
believe that is what you're seeing.

  I would characterize operating with a drive not properly supported
by my BIOS as "very risky".  See if Asus has a flash BIOS update for
this board....

David G

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