To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 13:31:11 -0800
Subject: Re: Fujitsu drive not recognized by Bios
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Carol,
      I just bought a 40 Gbyte hard drive and I could not  get the full
use of it, only 8.3 Gbytes. I
 went to Maxtor and they would sell me a board for the drive for $50.00 +
shipping.  My system
 is a 300Mhz Pentium II with Win 98-se2. I went to the motherboard mfr
and downloaded a
 updated BIOS and that worked. I am not saying this will work for you but
its free and worth
 a try.  Maxtor kept saying in their literature that the BIOS may be the
problem. It might be worth
 a try in your case.
HTH

HAGD Vince.....



On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:08:58 GMT "deerfern"
<computergeekintraining AT hotmail DOT com> writes:
>I am having a problem with a Fujitsu hard drive, model MPF3153AH 
>15.27GB,
>the bios will not recognize it. It worked when I purchased it but not 
>after
>I fdisk'd it.
>I bought it off Ebay.
>
>I have checked Fujitsu site, there is an issue of not recognizing over 
>8.4
>GB, but even
>after I manually type in the cylinders, heads and sectors I still get 
>Hard
>Drive Error.
>
>I think perhaps the OnTrack (On Track) Disk Manager for Fujitsu might 
>help
>as it might
>tell the bios the disk is larger than 8.4 gb. They want $40.00 for it, 
>and I
>am wondering if
>I should just trash the drive or if anyone happens to have this 
>manager and
>they would
>share for me? I thank you for any help you can give me.
>
>Carol
>
>
>
>


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