Dave,

My recommendation would be to upgrade your m/b for approx.. $100 (latest
chipset, BIOS, etc........).

Your other choice would be to exchange the Promise ISA card for the Ultra33
PCI card.  This will see your 6.4G drive and it allows booting from it also.
Plus you can use the m/b IDE interface for your CD-ROM(S), LS-120, ZIP, etc.

Just my 2cents worth.

Tim Klymkow

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Littlehale <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 1998 12:09 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Adding 2nd hard drive - HELP


>The saga continues I need advice on how to finish this project.  Trying
>to install a 6.4 Western Digital hard drive.  The first hard drive I
>bought was defective and it turns out that my BIOS does not support
>larger drives.  It only recognized it as being a 2.1 GB drive.
>
>Contacted the motherboard manufacturer, BCM, and the BIOS upgrade would
>only support a max of 4.1 GB.
>
>Contacted Micro Firmware and they do not make BIOS for this
>manufacturer.
>
>Bought a Promise IDE controller card only to discover that I do not have
>an empty ISA slot.
>
>In talking with the WD tech person this morning after we discovered that
>the BIOS would not support the drive, we installed EZ Drive.  He said it
>wouldn't slow down the system.  I read the responses to my previous
>posts about this question, and I am doubting that decision.  In addition
>to the possibility of data loss, EZ drive conflicts with parts of Norton
>Utilities.  I can uninstall EZ drive, but what should I do?  This has
>quickly gotten out of control and I am over my head.
>
>I see my options as:
>
>1) buy a new motherboard.  Any recommendations?  What do I look for?
>Never done anything that involved.  I see the mess I've gotten into just
>trying to add a 2nd HD.  How difficult is this?  Very apprehensive about
>this solution.
>
>2) return 6.4 drive; purchase 4.1; upgrade BIOS.  I got what I thought
>was a great price on the 6.4 and 4.1's are not that much less ($50);
>seems like a waste of money.
>
>3) go with the EZ Drive.
>
>What are the recommendations?
>
>Thanks
>
>Dave Littlehale
>