I think I went this way a while back on an older machine and reached a conclusion that via web research that it was likely that all the adressing lines were not present on the machine I was working with. Then I decided to try an add-on disk controller card with its own bios. Still no joy. Final fix was a new MB, cpu, memory and ATX case. It seems to cascade! John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 johnferrell@earthlink.net Dixie Competition Products NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" ----- Original Message ----- From: "michael brown" To: Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 9:00 AM Subject: Re: [EE]: 40GB Hard Disk for a Pentium 200MHz PC > From: "Olin Lathrop" > > > How is any software that isn't part of the bios supposed to help the > bios > > see the disk drive? > > It doesn't help the BIOS at all really. The BIOS still misidentifies > the drive size, but the Ontrack "virus" lives in the MBR of the drive > and runs as soon as the BIOS loads it. It then "fixes" the low memory > storage locations that the BIOS has already filled in with incorrect > info. It may also hook the interrupts so that later calls to it return > more correct information, but I'm not sure on that one. > > The OP needs to upgrade his BIOS if possible for the best fix. I would > only resort to Ontrack if a BIOS upgrade wasn't possible. His computer > will probably only "see" drives that are <8GB. > > Sometime when you have nothing better to do ;-) you should look at the > history of the "fixes" that have been made over the years to accommodate > ever increasing drive size. It's amazing that each step has been to > only allow for a moderately larger drive than the preceding format. I > think the current limitation is something less than 200GB. > > michael brown > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads