40GB: 05/26/1999-i440LX-W977TF-ATC-6120C-AB

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

This motherboard is by Atrend and they seem to have vanished.

I upgraded to version 1.04A, but that has not fixed the problem: it hangs while booting.

I use this computer mostly with Linux, so I have the disk disabled on the BIOS and it works alright with Linux (I have a smaller disk as primary), but I'd like to have it visible from Windows too.

Is it possible to have a patched BIOS?

Thanks in advance.

Julio

[NickS]

The string you give appears in the BIOS for the V2.0 board, the OEM message should be "ATC-6120 VER:2.0 08 WB" if you have the latest version from ftp://ftp.univ-lille1.fr/pub/vendor/atrend/Bios/Motherboard/Slot_1/.

I'll patch that one and post it at the link in my sig for you to try at your own risk. It will be there in a couple of minutes.

[Rainbow]

NickS: The BIOS ID strings for v1.0 and v2.0 are the same Julio says that the version is v1.04A, most probably this one:
05/26/1999-i440LX-W977TF-ATC-6120C-AB
ATC-6120 VER:1.0 04 LM

Sent this one patched.

[NickS]

Damn.

hanks, Rainbow.

I would have answered before (I tried it immediately and I could boot without problems), but I wanted to make sure I really had tested it. Unfortunately, this disk was filled with Linux ext2 partitions and it had developed a few bad sectors that I had to get rid of first before GNU parted would let me repartion the disk. Recovering from the resulting mess took some time.

Now I build a small FAT partition at the end of the disk and could access it form Win98. Scandisk reported no problem.

Now I don't see it correctly from Linux, will try to recreate the partition, geometry translation or something gotta be wrong, Linux is reporting bogus logical sector size.

I will keep you posted on further advances.

Thanks again,

Julio

This is just to confirm everything is OK, I was just trying different settings in the BIOS and, somehow, I was convinced that LBA could not possible work so every test had Linux and Windows disagreeing about things so they would end up smashing each other.

LBA, of course worked perfectly and everyone sees the same thing now.

So this one is tested.

Thanks for your help and sorry for no confirming this before (I thought I had, I promise)

Julio

[NickS]

Thanks for the confirmation !