Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980809102505.007afce0@mustafa.hempseed.com> Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 10:25:05 -0700 To: "Mark F. Warchol" From: Robert Sears Subject: Re: Help needed with invalaid partition table Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: <199808091352.IAA29582@endeavor.flash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: bulk I know that this is not right IF your BIOS has LBA mode for the HDD. I curently have a 2 Gig DR-DOS partition that is on the master and bootable. Check you BIOS harddrive settings if it is somewhat recent it should have an auto detect harddrives in the bios, run the autodetect and you should get three choices being some thing like: size cyls heads sect pcomp lzone MODE xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx NORMAL xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx LARGE xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx LBA Select the LBA mode, the BIOS will take care of the translations and you will not need any type of "overlay" like Ontrack or Maxblast, EZ-Drive, etc. If you dont have an LBA mode then you will need to use an overlay and you should then use the disk that came with your HDD to install and partition the drive. At 09:45 AM 8/9/98 +000, you wrote: > > Hello All, > Regarding my problem installing a new master hard-drive another list >indicated to me that (dos)-Drdos wouldn't accept a drive as master larger >than #512-M and that dos in general has this problem/limitation, and that it >wouldn't make a difference if I partation the drive smaller because the >entire drive wuld be seen beforehand as the nonpartationed size. They did >suggest that their is software to help with this but #512 wuld be the limit >without software. > Is this correct and wuldn't that mean that no drive bigger than #512-M >couldn't be useed as the master without software? > Please inform me! > Thanks, > Mark > >