I've tried that "BIOS Patcher" for some old Pentium motherboards that I have and it worked like a charm. But now I wonder. What about adding 48-bit LBA on old motherboards, is it technical possible or is that chipset/hardware limitations ? Would be pretty cool to have a 250GB disk in your old Pentium machine!
Sincerly,
//The Swede
"Big HDD"-limitations...
It is technically possible but it's not going to happen.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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..because the patcher just fixes bugs in the Award BIOS that should have worked up to 128GiB anyway. 48-bit support requires new code to be integrated into the BIOS, no easy task.Rainbow wrote:It is technically possible but it's not going to happen.
Tested patched BIOSes. Untested patched BIOSes.
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At least with some old IDE controllers 48-bit LBA would only work in PIO modes (problems with transferring "long" addresses in UDMA modes).
And you can always use an add-in PCI IDE controller if you want to have a 250-GB disk in a Pentium machine
And actually there are plans to add 48-bit LBA support to BP...
And you can always use an add-in PCI IDE controller if you want to have a 250-GB disk in a Pentium machine
And actually there are plans to add 48-bit LBA support to BP...
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who cares if you own ftp-server is running PIO, it will always be far better data transfer than from the net. And 250GB is a lot of space to store your downloaded stuff...
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