Re: Answer (Re: Cylinder limits jumper for drives over 32GB)

From: Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 18:44:22 EST


On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> Prepare to live DANGEROUSLY if we muck with the "XXXX_MAX_ADDRESS".
> There are AWARD Bios issues that prevent the System from getting past the
> BIOS INIT's if the geometry exceeds 32GB.

I found this out the hard way this weekend with an Athlon mobo and Award
BIOS. The thing would hang during BIOS INIT with a 40gb maxtor. No fun...

-Dan

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