[ale] HD size limit?

[da Black Baron]

Isn't it maxtor that used to have that crappy M$DOS installation program
you had to run in order to get one of their drives to work? 
Maxi-blast?  Yeah!  I've got a couple of those around still, somewhere.

Do they still require that be installed to talk to your bios? 

If so, you may be screwed in terms of using it for a linux partition...



On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 14:25, Joe wrote:
> "Robert E. Karaffa, II" <rkaraff at emory.edu> writes:
> 
> > hi joe,
> >     I tried just what you suggested.  the box would still hang during bootup
> > just after it recognized the boot drive.  I tried all permutations of
> > telling the bios to "mind its own GD business, I'm in charge here!".  no
> > dice.  I tried "none", "LBA", blah blah blah.  nothing worked.  I still
> > thought that, as long as I could get it to boot, linux would take over and
> > be able to format/partition the drive, but haven't got that to work.  I
> > don't think it matters if the drive is slave or master (it's a maxtor) or
> > even what bus it's on.  I'm still working on it.  thanks again for the
> > advice.
> 
> Er. Ugh. Have you tried the BIOS upgrade that you mentioned before?
> 
> I seem to remember that Maxtor drives might have "issues" with playing
> nice with other brands; maybe that's your problem. Perhaps someone
> on the list has more info. You might get away with trading it in
> on a similarly-sized Seagate; I had to do that a couple of months
> ago. The Maxtor drive simply would not play with the other drive
> in the box, a WD (but the symptoms were different than yours).
> 
> -- Joe
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