Posted by DAN on April 07, 19101 at 03:34:44:
In Reply to: replacing an Ultra DMA EIDE drive by Ultra ATA/100 posted by vukica on April 05, 19101 at 00:59:09:
WITH OUT MORE INFO ON YOUR COMPUTER,AGE ETC,
I LOOK AT YOU ARE REPLACING A 2 GIG HD,
I SUSPECT THE COMPUTER MY NOT TAKE A HD
THAT LARGE DUE TO THE OUT DATES BIOS,
THE RECIENNT BIOS LIMITATIONS WERE,4 GIG THEN
8 GIG,,I SUSPECT AN 8 GIG MAY WORK,AND YES IN BIOS SET UP,YOU NEED TO DETECT THE HARD DRIVE
IF IT WILL DETECT THE 20 GIG IT WILL WORK
PROVIDED YOU ARE RUNNING WIN 98,ONCE IT'S DETECTED
IT MUST BE FDISK'D AND PARTITIONED USING A WIN98
BOOT DISK WITH FDISK.EXE AND FORMAT.COM THATS
LOCATED IN C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND,,IT NEEDS TO BE SYSTEMED TO BE BOOTABLE,,THE ATA100 WILL WORK FINE
YOU JUST WONT GET THE FASTER SPEED IF COMPUTER DOESNT SUPPORT ULTRA DMA,,NOT THE RED STRIPE
ON THE RIBBON CABLE GOES NECT TO THE POWER PLUG,,
I WOULD ONLY HAVE THE NEW DRIVE IN THE COMPUTER JUMPERED TO MASTER TILL I FIND IF I CAN MAKE IT WORK
DAN
: I am trying to replace a 2GB Ultra DMA hard drive by a 20.5GB
: Ultra ATA/100 drive but my computer (e-tower 300k) does not
: register that the 20.5GB drive is present. I tried both master
: and slave configuration (with the old drive as master in the
: second case). Do I need to do/check anything specific about
: the BIOS settings? Do I need a special cable for the ATA
: drive (different than the DMA drive)?
: