40GB: FIC VT-503
Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 6:14 pm
I'm trying to upgrade the HDD on a system with a FIC VT-503 MoBo. BIOS ID is i-430tx-669-2a59if09c-00. Date is 3/23/00
New drive is a Maxtor 40GB 5400RPM unit.Old drive is 3.2GB Samsung formatted as FAT32 under Win95 OSR2.
I got past the first glitch (POST hang during HDD detect) by jumpering the drive to limit its size to NOMINAL 32GB. It still reports the drive as having 3300 or so "kb" but I don't know if they are using 1,000 byte "k" or 1,024 byte "k". The CMOS HDD autodetect screen shows the jumpered drive as having 4111 cylinders. (Could anything over 4,095 be a choke point for this BIOS?)
Anyhow, ScanDisk doesn't like it.
The 16 bit version tells me that it can't read from the last cluster on the drive and the 32 bit version tells me that I don't have enough memory to run it even tho I have 128MB and nothing else running.
The full blown Maxtor diagnostic indicates a BIOS incompatability problem but doesn't go into detail.
I am guessing that even when jumpered, the drive is still too big for the BIOS.
I guess that my primary question is whether I can use FDISK to partition it to some size less than a nominal 32 mb to get past it and if so, what should my maximum partition size be?
TIA.
SteveF
New drive is a Maxtor 40GB 5400RPM unit.Old drive is 3.2GB Samsung formatted as FAT32 under Win95 OSR2.
I got past the first glitch (POST hang during HDD detect) by jumpering the drive to limit its size to NOMINAL 32GB. It still reports the drive as having 3300 or so "kb" but I don't know if they are using 1,000 byte "k" or 1,024 byte "k". The CMOS HDD autodetect screen shows the jumpered drive as having 4111 cylinders. (Could anything over 4,095 be a choke point for this BIOS?)
Anyhow, ScanDisk doesn't like it.
The 16 bit version tells me that it can't read from the last cluster on the drive and the 32 bit version tells me that I don't have enough memory to run it even tho I have 128MB and nothing else running.
The full blown Maxtor diagnostic indicates a BIOS incompatability problem but doesn't go into detail.
I am guessing that even when jumpered, the drive is still too big for the BIOS.
I guess that my primary question is whether I can use FDISK to partition it to some size less than a nominal 32 mb to get past it and if so, what should my maximum partition size be?
TIA.
SteveF