bios doesn't like large hard drives

[Hawkwind]

On 10/17/06, Samuel Debruyn <theoneandonlysam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 8 Plus (40 GB, IDE/ATA, 5200RPM). Because my
> bios is too old for a hard drive bigger than 33 GB, I needed to use a
> Dynamic Drive Overlay. This utility creates a virtual (=not real) partition
> on your hd, with a size of 8 GB, formatted as EZ-Drive, during the booting
> of the hd. When your OS is started, it shows the real partitions. My problem
> is: this utility only works with Windows, when I tried to install Kubuntu,
> Kubuntu was still showing the EZ-Drive. If I delete the ddo, my pc will hang
> while the BIOS boots the hd. A solution to this problem?
>
> Sam



 So buy yourself a Promise IDE controller card which goes into an PCI slot.
I had this problem with a box that wouldn't take over 40GB and now it has 2
250GB drives in it.  The PC is about 6 - 7 years old now.


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