My first thought is: Have you set the SYSTEM BIOS
hard drive parameters to what PROMISE told you.
(Forget anything you learned in the past...)
Good luck... Been there, done that, failed too...
             Rick Glazier
----- Original Message -----
From: Herbert Graf <[log in to unmask]>
>      I just purcahsed a Promise EIDE card with onboard
> BIOS in the hopes of adding LBA to an old 486
> computer. When the system boots up it shows that LBA
> is initialized and operating, however it doesn't seem
> to be. I have two drives in the system, both more than
> the 504MB limit (one is 600MB, the other 850MB). FDISK
> still only sees 504MB with the standard settings. I
> then tried halving the cylinders and doubling the
> heads, that gives me the correct size in FDISK but on
> formating I get a ton of bad sectors. Anybody have any
> ideas? Is this even possible.Is my thinking all wrong
> on what the purpose of this card is? Thanks for any
> info. TTYL

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