[wellylug] New HDD on old motherboard

[Richard Hector]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 07:27:25PM +1300, Donald Gordon wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:16:04 +1300
> Richard Hector <richard at walnut.gen.nz> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've got a new(ish) 80G drive which my BIOS doesn't recognise.
> 
> Is that "doesn't recognise" a "thinks is smaller than 80G" or "refuses
> to see entirely"?

"hangs when it tries to detect - even ESC to skip doesn't work"

> Have you tried setting it up manually (as opposed to
> autodetect)?

No, I guess that's another option - if I can find the details.

I thought I'd try flashing the bios as the most likely of Brent's
suggestions, but man what a PITA - signing up to driver guide to
download the image/flash util, then downloading a freedos disk image
only to discover my fdd doesn't work. I'm now playing with a freedos CD,
but then I need a DOS filesystem somewhere to get the BIOS stuff from.
If that doesn't work, I guess I'll see if I can find another floppy
drive ...

I'm also compiling a new kernel, but that box is still only a PII 400,
so it takes a while.

Oh, and with all the stuffing around to get the fdd going (it wasn't
even plugged in to start with), I had some moments when it wouldn't boot
at all, so there may be other hardware problems.

Thanks,

Richard