I have a wd21600 harddrive. If installed in my Pentium 2-350Mhz, with AMIBIOS string of 61-1104-001169-00101111-071595-440BX/2X-1440B000-H, it works just fine. I have no problems with it. (using OS W98)
But when I put it in a Pentium-100Mhz, with Award Bios string of 7/31/95-TRITON-2A59CF52C-00 I can't get it to boot. I keep getting an error message of 'HARDDISK FAILURE[80]'
I have tried every configuration of Bios possibilities, I have tried repartitioning and reformatting, I have put a new ribbon cable on the hard drive, I have checked and rechecked a million times the jumper settings on motherboard, I have tried using all three jumper options on HD(master,slave,and cableselect). I don't know what else to try, can anyone please help!!!!
(Ithought maybe the problem might be that I need to update bios)
Thx,
Olivia
My harddrive works in one computer but not the other.....
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It's even possible it doesn't recognize anything beyond 528MB
For the record, you did set that Western Digital for Single Drive mode when connected by its own (no other devices on the cable)? You can do this by removing the jumper alltogether from the drive.
Were the other disks also Western Digitals?
For the record, you did set that Western Digital for Single Drive mode when connected by its own (no other devices on the cable)? You can do this by removing the jumper alltogether from the drive.
Were the other disks also Western Digitals?
edwin/evasive
Do not assume anything
System error, strike any user to continue...
Do not assume anything
System error, strike any user to continue...
What capacities ? As Edwin says, it could be limited to 528/540 MB at that date.funchic wrote:no one drive I tried was a Conner and one was a Seagate.
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Thank you for all your help. I have found the answer to my problem. It is as he says, it is limited to only 548mb. In order to upgrade I have to get a new bios module. So a new motherboard it is!
Again thx!!!
Olivia
Again thx!!!
Olivia
You could always get a plug-in controller card with its own BIOS (Maxtor/Promise)...
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528MB limit for a Pentium board That's BS. I've seen many 486 boards with Award 4.50 BIOSes dated 1994 - and all of them have LBA support (over 528MB).
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Looks like the board is probably a variant of Fugutech/PC-Chips M505/6/7 or Amptron PM7500 or Powertech MB533, with non-flashable BIOS.
Check out http://th2chips.freeservers.com/m507/index.html to see if it looks like M506/M507
Amptron PM7500 info at http://www.amptron.com/manuals/PM-7500C/pm7500ma.zip
Rainbow may have a picture of something like it but the link is dead and substituting www.rainbow-software.org for rainbow.host.sk does not work.
Can you post a picture ?
Check out http://th2chips.freeservers.com/m507/index.html to see if it looks like M506/M507
Amptron PM7500 info at http://www.amptron.com/manuals/PM-7500C/pm7500ma.zip
Rainbow may have a picture of something like it but the link is dead and substituting www.rainbow-software.org for rainbow.host.sk does not work.
Can you post a picture ?
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