max partition size etc.

I've got an old PC on the bench / AMDK6/2 500mhz / 192 mb 168pin 66mhz
sdram - {hd goes CLACK..CLACK CRUNCH RATTLE RATTLE !!), about to fit new
eIDE hd / 80gb Maxtor. I dug out an old W98se boot floppy I made a while
ago - on it I wrote "fdisk.exe for hd's larger than 64gb," ...what's was
the largest drive I can make on this hard disk ? Long time since
reinstalling a W98 machine :-)

regards, Richard

Win98SE and the fdisk you have supports partitions up to 127.5GB. However,
the question is does your bios.

You may want to check the support at the motherboard manufacturers site to
see what size partition the motherboard bios supports.

--
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DTS MVP

www.hildrum.com
"RJK" wrote in message
...
I've got an old PC on the bench / AMDK6/2 500mhz / 192 mb 168pin 66mhz
sdram - {hd goes CLACK..CLACK CRUNCH RATTLE RATTLE !!), about to fit new
eIDE hd / 80gb Maxtor. I dug out an old W98se boot floppy I made a while
ago - on it I wrote "fdisk.exe for hd's larger than 64gb," ...what's was
the largest drive I can make on this hard disk ? Long time since
reinstalling a W98 machine :-)

regards, Richard

Woe is me :-( ...I think the damned P5A has a ROM bios on it "V1007.A",
(not a reflashable one)
Asus have really tarted up their site, and I found old talk on the web where
people had had trouble getting P5A-B's to recognize an 80gb hd. bios
version 1011_005 looks like it'll support the drive but, I can't find on the
Asus site, or pin down the correct version elsewhere, the correct Award
flasher programme. I've tried a couple and they report that something's
wrong. ...and distant bells are ringing, waded through the Asus P5A
motherboard manual and can't find anything about a physical jumper that
needs to be removed or connected / to enable flashing, and I don't think
there's a software switch in bios to prevent flashing...or am I missing
something somewhere ? I have a feeling that I tried to update the bios on
this machine a few years ago and couldn't !

regards, Richard

....I wonder where I could get an Award EEPROM for this board ?


"Jon_Hildrum" wrote in message
...
Win98SE and the fdisk you have supports partitions up to 127.5GB. However,
the question is does your bios.

You may want to check the support at the motherboard manufacturers site to
see what size partition the motherboard bios supports.

--
Jon Hildrum
DTS MVP

www.hildrum.com
"RJK" wrote in message
...
I've got an old PC on the bench / AMDK6/2 500mhz / 192 mb 168pin 66mhz
sdram - {hd goes CLACK..CLACK CRUNCH RATTLE RATTLE !!), about to fit new
eIDE hd / 80gb Maxtor. I dug out an old W98se boot floppy I made a while
ago - on it I wrote "fdisk.exe for hd's larger than 64gb," ...what's was
the largest drive I can make on this hard disk ? Long time since
reinstalling a W98 machine :-)

regards, Richard

....oh blow it ! ...I'll put in an IDE pci card !

regards, Richard


"RJK" wrote in message
...
Woe is me :-( ...I think the damned P5A has a ROM bios on it "V1007.A",
(not a reflashable one)
Asus have really tarted up their site, and I found old talk on the web
where people had had trouble getting P5A-B's to recognize an 80gb hd.
bios version 1011_005 looks like it'll support the drive but, I can't find
on the Asus site, or pin down the correct version elsewhere, the correct
Award flasher programme. I've tried a couple and they report that
something's wrong. ...and distant bells are ringing, waded through the
Asus P5A motherboard manual and can't find anything about a physical
jumper that needs to be removed or connected / to enable flashing, and I
don't think there's a software switch in bios to prevent flashing...or am
I missing something somewhere ? I have a feeling that I tried to update
the bios on this machine a few years ago and couldn't !

regards, Richard

...I wonder where I could get an Award EEPROM for this board ?


"Jon_Hildrum" wrote in message
...
Win98SE and the fdisk you have supports partitions up to 127.5GB.
However, the question is does your bios.

You may want to check the support at the motherboard manufacturers site
to see what size partition the motherboard bios supports.

--
Jon Hildrum
DTS MVP

www.hildrum.com
"RJK" wrote in message
...
I've got an old PC on the bench / AMDK6/2 500mhz / 192 mb 168pin 66mhz
sdram - {hd goes CLACK..CLACK CRUNCH RATTLE RATTLE !!), about to fit new
eIDE hd / 80gb Maxtor. I dug out an old W98se boot floppy I made a
while ago - on it I wrote "fdisk.exe for hd's larger than 64gb,"
...what's was the largest drive I can make on this hard disk ? Long
time since reinstalling a W98 machine :-)

regards, Richard

"RJK" wrote:

...oh blow it ! ...I'll put in an IDE pci card !

regards, Richard


You could also use the MaxBlast BIOS overlay software to allow the
drive to work with the older hardware.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm

RJK wrote:
Woe is me :-( ...I think the damned P5A has a ROM bios on it "V1007.A",
(not a reflashable one)

If that is the case? .. you'll have to get a replacement chip i guess,
but else ..

Asus have really tarted up their site, and I found old talk on the web where
people had had trouble getting P5A-B's to recognize an 80gb hd. bios
version 1011_005 looks like it'll support the drive but, I can't find on the
Asus site, or pin down the correct version elsewhere, the correct Award
flasher programme. I've tried a couple and they report that something's

here you go ..
http://support.asus.com/download/download_item.aspx?model=P5A&type=Latest&SLanguage =en-us
with http://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock7/ali/p5a/1011-005.zip
and
http://support.asus.com/technicaldocuments/technicaldocuments_content.aspx?no=541&SLanguage=e n-us
with ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/mb/flash/aflash221.zip

Note that the latest one is a FTP-link. But i just confirmed that both
downloads work.

flasher programme. I've tried a couple and they report that something's
wrong. ...and distant bells are ringing, waded through the Asus P5A
motherboard manual and can't find anything about a physical jumper that
needs to be removed or connected / to enable flashing, and I don't think
there's a software switch in bios to prevent flashing...or am I missing
something somewhere ? I have a feeling that I tried to update the bios on
this machine a few years ago and couldn't !

I won't DL and read the manual for you, i suggest you head over to the
news:alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus newsgroup and ask for help in
there if the above links don't help you out.

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big thanx, will be rummaging around those links - have just used Maxblast4
overlay job to save buying an antique eeprom or pci-eide card :-)

regards, Richard


"... et al." wrote in message
...
RJK wrote:
Woe is me :-( ...I think the damned P5A has a ROM bios on it "V1007.A",
(not a reflashable one)

If that is the case? .. you'll have to get a replacement chip i guess, but
else ..

Asus have really tarted up their site, and I found old talk on the web
where people had had trouble getting P5A-B's to recognize an 80gb hd.
bios version 1011_005 looks like it'll support the drive but, I can't
find on the Asus site, or pin down the correct version elsewhere, the
correct Award flasher programme. I've tried a couple and they report
that something's

here you go ..
http://support.asus.com/download/download_item.aspx?model=P5A&type=Latest&SLanguage =en-us
with http://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock7/ali/p5a/1011-005.zip
and
http://support.asus.com/technicaldocuments/technicaldocuments_content.aspx?no=541&SLanguage=e n-us
with ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/mb/flash/aflash221.zip

Note that the latest one is a FTP-link. But i just confirmed that both
downloads work.

flasher programme. I've tried a couple and they report that something's
wrong. ...and distant bells are ringing, waded through the Asus P5A
motherboard manual and can't find anything about a physical jumper that
needs to be removed or connected / to enable flashing, and I don't think
there's a software switch in bios to prevent flashing...or am I missing
something somewhere ? I have a feeling that I tried to update the bios
on this machine a few years ago and couldn't !

I won't DL and read the manual for you, i suggest you head over to the
news:alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus newsgroup and ask for help in there
if the above links don't help you out.

--
Please followup in newsgroup.
E-mail address is invalid due to spam-control.

....much obliged and well spotted, and that's what I did in the end -
downloaded Maxtors Maxblast 4 ISO image - burnt a cd-r and did the overlay
thing. And VERY "unintuitive," and very poorly labelled in Maxblast4 the
procedure was too. i.e. not much of a clue that a drive overlay was being
selected and implemented until up popped a label saying that it had done
just that !
That saved a few quid on a pci-ide card :-)
....this old P5A / AMD K6/2 500 192mb 100mhz sdram is surpisingly quite
usable ! W98se's just flown in - am about to stuff in that green cd that
was free from MS :-)

regards, Richard


"Ron Martell" wrote in message
...
"RJK" wrote:

...oh blow it ! ...I'll put in an IDE pci card !

regards, Richard


You could also use the MaxBlast BIOS overlay software to allow the
drive to work with the older hardware.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm

RJK wrote:
...much obliged and well spotted, and that's what I did in the end -
downloaded Maxtors Maxblast 4 ISO image - burnt a cd-r and did the overlay
thing. And VERY "unintuitive," and very poorly labelled in Maxblast4 the
procedure was too. i.e. not much of a clue that a drive overlay was being
selected and implemented until up popped a label saying that it had done
just that !
That saved a few quid on a pci-ide card :-)
...this old P5A / AMD K6/2 500 192mb 100mhz sdram is surpisingly quite
usable ! W98se's just flown in - am about to stuff in that green cd that
was free from MS :-)

regards, Richard


"Ron Martell" wrote in message
...

"RJK" wrote:


...oh blow it ! ...I'll put in an IDE pci card !

regards, Richard


You could also use the MaxBlast BIOS overlay software to allow the
drive to work with the older hardware.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm


I've never had a problem with overlays, but it bothers me that a small
error in the boot block can render my whole disk unreadable.
Don't forget to backup your system regularly 'cause normal recovery
tools ain't gonna work.
mike


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Hi Mike

I remember always hating the idea of a "drive overlay," and I've just come a
bit of a cropper with it. Have installed W98se and tried installing the Ali
bus master drivers ...Ontrack overlay does NOT like them at all, boot-up
stalls, had to switch off | pwr-up | hold Ctrl | go to dos prompt and
scanreg /restore to get back up and running ! ...I think I'll leave those
out :-) ...never had a problem with those in the long distant past on non
"overlayed" drives. Gosh !! all this W98 stuff is coming back to me :-)

...now I wonder if the pci/AGP bridge'll go in, and why oh why did I throw
away those old Voodoo discs ! ...yes ...it's got Voodoo 3000 3dfx card in
it !
....why oh why didn't I just say "NO" ? ...and why did I always supply all
relevant cd's in the motherboard box just so that the customer could lose
them !?

regards, Richard













"mike" wrote in message
...
RJK wrote:
...much obliged and well spotted, and that's what I did in the end -
downloaded Maxtors Maxblast 4 ISO image - burnt a cd-r and did the
overlay thing. And VERY "unintuitive," and very poorly labelled in
Maxblast4 the procedure was too. i.e. not much of a clue that a drive
overlay was being selected and implemented until up popped a label saying
that it had done just that !
That saved a few quid on a pci-ide card :-)
...this old P5A / AMD K6/2 500 192mb 100mhz sdram is surpisingly quite
usable ! W98se's just flown in - am about to stuff in that green cd that
was free from MS :-)

regards, Richard


"Ron Martell" wrote in message
...

"RJK" wrote:


...oh blow it ! ...I'll put in an IDE pci card !

regards, Richard


You could also use the MaxBlast BIOS overlay software to allow the
drive to work with the older hardware.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm


I've never had a problem with overlays, but it bothers me that a small
error in the boot block can render my whole disk unreadable.
Don't forget to backup your system regularly 'cause normal recovery tools
ain't gonna work.
mike


--
Return address is VALID but some sites block emails
with links. Delete this sig when replying.
.
Wanted, PCMCIA SCSI Card for HP m820 CDRW.
FS 500MHz Tek DSOscilloscope TDS540 Make Offer
Wanted 12" LCD for Compaq Armada 7770MT.
Bunch of stuff For Sale and Wanted at the link below.
MAKE THE OBVIOUS CHANGES TO THE LINK
htremovethistp://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/4710/