Hello!
This old PII of mine has a rather worn out hard disk which will keep screwing up Win98 - I suppose it loses MBR data once in a while... so I tried to stick in an 80GB WD but the BIOS won't detect it.
The last beta BIOS I found on Shuttle's ftp is the 092, supposed to support "large IBM HD", but my WD harddisk won't work.
I see there are BIOS gurus around here. Anyone would want to lose some time to help me?
Thanks in advance!
80 GB: Shuttle HOT-671, Bios 6710S092
Patched (no tested):
http://wims.rainbow-software.org/kuriak ... 671%29.zip
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Send your feedback please.
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Well, that WAS fast! Thank you!
So, it appears it still doesn't recognize the disk - at least if set as master.
I haven't tried so hard, so far.
In fact, I didn't reply immediately because I'm currently trying out an 'alternate jumper setting', courtesy of WD, which fools the bios into believing it's just a 32GB hard drive. In fact it does recognize the drive this way, but I don't know what size it believes it is. I should use WD 'data lifeguard tools' on a boot disk, only they don't work...
I'll keep you informed!
So, it appears it still doesn't recognize the disk - at least if set as master.
I haven't tried so hard, so far.
In fact, I didn't reply immediately because I'm currently trying out an 'alternate jumper setting', courtesy of WD, which fools the bios into believing it's just a 32GB hard drive. In fact it does recognize the drive this way, but I don't know what size it believes it is. I should use WD 'data lifeguard tools' on a boot disk, only they don't work...
I'll keep you informed!
SO!
After some tweaking I can tell you that:
So many thanks!!!
(Muchas gracias, y saludos desde Suiza
)
After some tweaking I can tell you that:
- the BIOS can recognize the drive as Slave (if jumpered so, alone on the channel)
- doesn't recognize it as Master (if jumpered so, alone on the channel)
- (last but not least) it does recognize it as Master if jumpered as "Cable Select"
So many thanks!!!
(Muchas gracias, y saludos desde Suiza
)You mean only WD drives? In fact, the old Quantum drive was set as master... In any case I'm sure I tried it set as single drive too. Before the patched BIOS it just would stay indefinitely like [press F4 to skip], and often wouldn't even skip when pressing F4. I guess I haven't tried "single drive" with the new BIOS though...Denniss wrote:You may have not noticed WD requires it to be jumpered as Single-Master if there's no slave drive attached to it.